But...but...that would mean being totally consistent...and who is?

Leave us quietly alone to our little hypocrisies, blind spots, and self-indulgences, I say! It's we little people who can't even live up to our own impassioned rhetoric who keep daytime TV and WalMart viable in these perilous times, to say nothing of the Democratic and Republican parties. Without us you wouldn't have had beanie babies either. We weep buckets over the death of one kitten (reported on the 6 O'Clock News) while daily devouring meat from slaughterhouses that torture and kill millions of animals yearly. We don't think about things that are disturbing, unless we're told to. Remember that. Allow us our little hatreds, I say! They are part of what makes us free, and causes others to envy our way of life.

I eat steak 5 times a week, and have never experienced a moment of guilt, but I hope they fry the guy that killed that kitten.