Letter to the Editor: The feralisation of society
The latest anti-social behaviour involves groups of children setting lurcher dogs on cats.
Dear Editor,
The feralisation of Irish society continues apace. The latest anti-social behaviour involves groups of children setting lurcher dogs on cats. As they live their feline lives, they are sought out by roaming gangs patrolling housing estates and setting dogs on any kitten/cat they come across.
Loose leaf parenting has birthed children that respect no social norms, and who have become citizens of feral town. Irish society has descended into a ‘no country for respect for life’.
Healthcare workers are being used as medical punch bags, public transport has become pugilistic transport, elderly people cower in their homes, dreading a visit from those who fail to grasp the meaning of private property.
A night on the town could see a paramedic becoming your best pal. Courtrooms are now being repurposed as security zones to protect court workers, while the library staff have to dodge right hooks and not late return books.
Our public roads now spin on a motoring wheel of fortune/misfortune. The home sees women dealing with men bringing bunches of punches not flowers.
Even a cataractic eye can see that Irish society is in moral decay mode. Life for human and non-human has been rebranded as valueless. A society where criminality taints every level of our existence.
The stench of a rotting society seems the fragrance to wear.
Anger is vented but soon wafts away in the diffuser of indignation.
Onto this pyre of human life that turns respect into arid smoke is the treatment of the non-human members of our society. Animal abuse is taking place, both in public and private, during every one of the 1,440 minutes of the day.
From companion animal abuse, factory farming, live hunting, vivisection, zoos, live shooting, puppy farming, and live animal exports, the many forms of animal abuse is only limited by the perpetrators imagination and governmental approval.
People are shocked, even horrified.
What is required to remedy this flensing of the fabric of decent society is an overhaul of attitudes backed up by clear legislation and cohesive legal punishment.
Evil does dig its own grave.
At the rate Ireland is going, we will have a cemetery by Christmas.
Yours,
John Tierney
Chairperson,
Waterford Animal Concern,
Church Road,
Larchville,
Waterford city
