Week 5 - Freestyle

So this week we're supposed to blog about any topic from the links on Mrs. Halfen's blog. I read through the Psych Center Mental Health Year in Review 2008 and I fell asleep about four, five times. I couldn't find any topic that was appealing. Then I asked Amanda how she found her topic and she referred me to the blogs at Psychology Today where I found my topic: "Are Dogs Worth More Than Humans?"
The article was a second edition and an address to the commmentary on the author's original topic of Michael Vick and his crime of dog fighting. In this article, the author claims that the relationship between dogs and humans and the way society views dogs is all man-made. We, humans, seek to benefit from this relationship and we therefore go ahead and domesticate dogs. However, an argument was presented that the mass population of dogs must sometimes be controlled and a canine massacre was supposedly suggested. In response, the author stated that scientists have discovered that dogs actually have an inborn sense of morality and emotion that is significantly higher than human children. Therefore, to support an annual canine massacre would be like to support a massacre of children or retarded adults, which if you think about it, that's just totally wrong. The author's reason for stating this is because humans also have a sense of right and wrong even though it's sometimes violated. But in the bigger picture, dogs don't go through scandals and greedy acts that cause harm. They give back to nature relatively more than humans. As a result, dogs aren't worth more than humans (we're still a superior species) but they do need to be better valued and treated than us humans give them credit for.