Not trying to stretch this out, Karaoke (and thanks for your excellent response), but I still find that being lucky enough to live in a relatively wealthy Western country leaves me with some feelings of guilt - when I view the rest of the poverty stricken world.
I do subscribe to quite a number of charities, but then more and more appeals come pouring in with the post almost daily and one is left feeling shitty about binning them - but one can't support absolutely everything.
However, this thread was originally about to whom you'd extend help when you had to decide between animals or humans. I vividly remember the tabloid photos of Sefton and other horses lying dead or injured in the Mall, and very compelling they were (and I can entirely understand the News Editors concerned deciding that the photos were front page stuff). But equally I share the view of fellow officers in the Army that it was disgraceful, in a sense, that so little equivalent publicity was given to the soldiers who'd also been killed and injured in the same atrocity.
I suspect I'm beginning to sound repetitive, for which I apologise, so I'll now shut up ...
Tony.
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