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I recently went to hear an author talk about his book on the neuroscience behind morality. He described how normally circumspect people turn off their natural compassion when placed in unnatural contexts. People we might consider “kind” or “decent” could be cruel when placed in a context in which cruelty is the norm. And what could be more unnatural than a typical U.S. animal control shelter which is little more than an assembly line of killing?
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working at a shelter is a paycheck and nothing more to employees
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The answer to that question can be found in the very nature of shelters themselves and the kind of people who apply to work in them.
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slaughterhouse workers had to make the animals unworthy of any consideration on their behalf. And the two most common methods of achieving this are indifference and showing sadistic behavior toward the animals.
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to get there, many of them had to fire most of the existing staff; because the tragic fact is that animal shelters in the U.S. are designed for violence and the people in them are largely hired specifically to commit it.
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The good news, of course, is that an increasing number of these shelters do align the ideal and the reality.
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Killing is the ultimate form of violence.
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But it is taking far too long, and too many animals are being subjected to systematic and unrelenting violence
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