Yes, I think your comment captures my showerthought. It was an excercize in empathy. I do realize that the love for a sacred animal is significantly more profound than the way I feel about my dog. That being said, I do have respect and love for my dear canine companion, which causes an inhibition for eating him.
I too like cows. They make sense to me.
The eating-a-human thing is symbolic. I take it as a reminder to have respect for the sacrifice made by the animals that died to make the food we eat. They support our life and so a level of respect is called for.
People think of Jesus as an avatar, like god playing a computer game on earth. So in that sense Jesus is video game god.
I hate the whole hellfire thing. It seems very manipulative.
An emotional support pigeon is not a service animal. ESA and service animals are entirely separate things.
There's service dogs for people with autism and part of their job might be to facilitate social interaction. So they might be given permission to get pet and socialize.
The difference is in public access. ESA aren't protected by law to be in restaurants, businesses, etc. so even if they are untrained, they are not more dangerous than someone being irresponsible with a pet. Then normal pet laws and liabilities should be helpful.
In contrast, a psych service dog needs to be on point and behaving appropriately with proper training. They are protected and come into more contact with the public, so have higher levels of control required. There's public access testing and the like as tools to help safeguard this.
You are right, I'll delete my comment. I didn't realize that homeopathy meant those crazy people that use ridiculous dilutions. I heard that it's improbable that even 1 molecule of 'active' ingredient is left over after they dilute and dilute.
I used to eat the communion wafer, so maybe that's the source of my misunderstanding! Always cool to learn something new, thanks.
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