The thing of having almost no followers, like me, protects me from a random, probably big and interesting discussion with other people about this matter. Not that I’m afraid of. On the contrary, I would like to have it! but you know, thinking about algorithms and those kinds of things that decide stuff for us but we don’t see😊, this discussion will stay on hold in the cyberspace of a server somewhere in this earth. For the time being it has been only between you and me and I have had the pleasure to comment on it!
Look forward to your next post which actually reminds me that it is time to write one myself!😉
I need to write one too! Just life keeps preventing me from doing it! The good thing about Substack (one of, cause there are more) is that it forces me to prioritize my writing and not just let life stuff always deter me. I am very easily deterred ...
Nice story! I have two fur coats which I wear when there is very, very cold… which by the way, means, almost never anymore. The wearing of fur coats is a discussion subject that can use a ‘lot of ink’.
I personally don’t agree on killing animals to make things, whatever they are, but if they are dead already you’d better use what you can to make something else. This has been done since humankind exists. It is true that we developed ourselves and we got more ‘human’ and more kind to other animal species that are not human but, we still kill animals for a purpose and will actually continue to do it.
Would someone go to an Inuit or to a Saami and tell them that they cannot use a fur coat made of a reindeer, an attic fox or an arctic wolf? I don’t think so. The thing is that if you want to apply a principle to something (in this case wearing a fur coat) you have to apply it also to a lot of things such wearing leather shoes or bags, eating meat, buy a rug made of pieces of cow’s skin and so on and so forth.
To close my point, fake fur really looks like true fur so, if you walk on the streets with a truly fur coat nobody gives a damn because the ordinary person cannot see the difference. As you say in your text, the truth is in the label! 😉
Thank you so much for your comment Luz! Yeah, you touch on some very good points there. I got this idea when I was thinking about the extreme things we do sometimes to protect the things we love.
Thanks, Alina!
The thing of having almost no followers, like me, protects me from a random, probably big and interesting discussion with other people about this matter. Not that I’m afraid of. On the contrary, I would like to have it! but you know, thinking about algorithms and those kinds of things that decide stuff for us but we don’t see😊, this discussion will stay on hold in the cyberspace of a server somewhere in this earth. For the time being it has been only between you and me and I have had the pleasure to comment on it!
Look forward to your next post which actually reminds me that it is time to write one myself!😉
I need to write one too! Just life keeps preventing me from doing it! The good thing about Substack (one of, cause there are more) is that it forces me to prioritize my writing and not just let life stuff always deter me. I am very easily deterred ...
Nice story! I have two fur coats which I wear when there is very, very cold… which by the way, means, almost never anymore. The wearing of fur coats is a discussion subject that can use a ‘lot of ink’.
I personally don’t agree on killing animals to make things, whatever they are, but if they are dead already you’d better use what you can to make something else. This has been done since humankind exists. It is true that we developed ourselves and we got more ‘human’ and more kind to other animal species that are not human but, we still kill animals for a purpose and will actually continue to do it.
Would someone go to an Inuit or to a Saami and tell them that they cannot use a fur coat made of a reindeer, an attic fox or an arctic wolf? I don’t think so. The thing is that if you want to apply a principle to something (in this case wearing a fur coat) you have to apply it also to a lot of things such wearing leather shoes or bags, eating meat, buy a rug made of pieces of cow’s skin and so on and so forth.
To close my point, fake fur really looks like true fur so, if you walk on the streets with a truly fur coat nobody gives a damn because the ordinary person cannot see the difference. As you say in your text, the truth is in the label! 😉
Thank you so much for your comment Luz! Yeah, you touch on some very good points there. I got this idea when I was thinking about the extreme things we do sometimes to protect the things we love.