RE: [C-L]_Cats. Wow! <– Date –> <– Thread –>

[don i arkin (shardon5]

Hi Jan,  I think that you have missed Rob's implicit point which I
believe is that just because a person's motivations on an issue are
emotional (and I certainly agree that my attachment to environmental
issues are largely emotional), they still can be altered especially with
good facilitation.  I don't think that there is really any argument with
the proposition that people's emotional attachments to other people,
animals, and ideas are often in a state of flux for all kinds of reasons.
 I didn't read anything Rob said as implying that emotional attachments
to issues are inherently bad, just inherently more difficult to deal
with.
        Good luck with your endangered cockroaches.  
        don arkin, sonora cohousing 
 
Thanks for sharing your perspective here Rob but despite your good
intentions I don't think you've managed to smooth things over.
 
Pet owners and parents may be emotional and therefore in your opinion
irrational, but what sort of a world would we have if people were
motivated
entirely by reason?  In fact, would that be enough to motivate them?  And
without feelings could you say they were truly human?  Would we even have
community if people were not influenced by their emotions?
 
The same goes for the other side of the debate.  When people fight to
protect wildlife they are primarily motivated by feelings not reason,
which
is why for example here in Australia there's not much trouble finding
supporters for the fight to save cuddly koalas, not so easy for the other
99%, the invertebrates.
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