Okay, Mark.

First of all, the mentality of a person's behavior towards living beings is certainly an appropriate reflection of the way that person treats other people. Mark obviously has no love for pets, or animals in general I'll bet, because they don't deserve it; only people do, right? Maybe this is just a weakness of mine. Maybe I shouldn't give a shit about my cat, and try to spend more time making peoples' lives better because they're worth so much more than her.

Unfortunately, my conscience is weighted down, and compelled to do otherwise. It's called compassion. And well, plus, she lives with me, and the only way I can stop her from whining at 6:40am is to feed her.

So yes, I would swerve my car away from a helpless animal who can't help our invasion and destruction of a nature that isn't ours to conquer, obliterate the man-made engine in my Toyota, fly out of the man-made shatter-proof glass, and smash head-first into a man-made pole. Wanna know why? I take life more seriously than the traction rate of my car's wheels. The people who fight for animal rights are fighting against people who treat their property with more respect than natural life. It's a basic right, and I'm pretty sure they (the government, ironically) put life before liberty and property for a reason. The constitution is not applied to animals, but the implications are nonetheless in support of what is right. Not what is convenient.

-bry