Ahmen...

-nods- Very good personal piece.

It may indeed better to be the trash then be he-who'wastes, or the oppressed rather then the oppressor, but wouldn't it be even better to be he-who-prevents-oppression?

I'm often ashamed by the actions of my species, but I'm not answerable for their actions - only for my own. I can't stop the gears in the glue-factory or the knives in the slaughterhouse, but I can influence the world and (more importantly) the people around me.
And maybe then, we could get the gears and the knives to stop.

D.O.P.R

I remember being told ages ago in high school that if a creature has a small enough brain that they don't feel pain even in death [this being fish and insects]. But obviously horses have a large enough brain...dogs...cats...all kinds of animals can feel pain. Always seemed to me that it was just the textbook author trying to make themselves feel better about what is done to all kinds of animals.

well we heard about some people they fished crabs. and while the crabs was still alive, they tore of the legs and the claws, they only ate them annyway, then they scuashed them, and buried them under their apple tree.
they have the best apples whith maby a small thuch of sea, and a quite prominant taste of evil

Use the positive abilities you have as a human to help aid in helping them, you can help them more as a human than as one of them. I think that's basically what DOPR5 said, but yeah... even if you can't make a dent in their suffering, you can give your best efforts. I know the world isn't going to get any better but I still feel good about recycling and not using aerosol sprays. xP

Amazingly candid. I get what you are referring to more than I can easily express. Maybe to be is to suffer.

There's something from the Carmina Burana that I like. Here's a translation of the Latin...

Fate is against me
in health
and virtue,
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating strings;
since Fate
strikes down the strong man,
everybody weep with me!

I unfortunately haven't got time to leave a long message, but the first thing that pops unceremoniously into my head is 'well, at least the sentient species on the planet is a primate and not an insect'. Ants with nuclear weapons o.O

If you're vegan, then you're helping. Being a small market force in demand of vegan foods causes stores and restaurants that you frequent to stock more vegan foods. The result is that the choice of compassionate living becomes more obvious and available to some people who'd be otherwise hesitant.

It also helps that you're able to, from time to time, remind your friends that dietary choice is first a matter of ethics. Many people aren't responsive, and I am seriously dumbfounded at anyone who can deliberately choose a path they know is unethical and hurtful. But some people are responsive. And some people take time to come to the right decision. I'm sure you've made more difference than you may realize.

I Wonder how many people actually know your past...

Seems like a lot of the comments are a bit clueless to it.

I hear you all too well on that front, namely why I am taking active efforts in equine rescue, I've been donating, going out and helping out with a horse rescue place in BC. It's what little I can do for these beings who manage to bring out the most spiritual in me.

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Yes. :-/
There's a lot of things in the world that are unjust - but due to who i am and my deep love for horses, the butchering of them hurts me more than most (if not all) others.
Although this isn't just about horses, it's about cows, and pigs, and goats, and everyone else we share the earth with...

"i'd rather be the opressed than the opressor... the used than the user, the trash than he-who-wastes. "

But then you'd be powerless against the evil. Being who you are you can try changing the ones of your own, or protect these who you'd normally oppress...

I understrand your feelings all too well :/ Many many many of them i share.

I know... *noses*

I can realte to that feeling -____- I'm trying to make it up by hellping animals all I can I want to give my time, effort, etc to hellp those in need but one person isn't enough >< most humans are selfish and greedy, we need more generous humans =(

I agree with Lemuria . . . tho i havent been able to devote my time to helping animals . .. i have left my mark on a few horses i used to work with . . . .one of them refuses to work without me now . . ..its ( to me ) very touching when a being like that chooses one of us dominating humans over another . . . i must have done something right fer her to disregard her owner . . . . and choose me . . . tho unfortunately due to my fricken job i have lost contact with her ( the mare ) but as i have talked to her owner . . . she still wont work for them . . . .

this picture is really a sad peice to me . . . .i cant say much more than that . . .

I'm very sure you will find a lot of furries believe in the exact same thing that you are expressing right here. I myself hate being human most of the time and would do anything to become a real animal...even a dragon. I think in past lives, some of us WERE in fact animal souls, and now we have to suffer being nonmundane humans. Thats my opinion anyways...

A lot of people share your opinion too, at least, among furries and therians.

How true :<
I feel this....sad but story telling.

I agree with you on so many levels...

Great talent and severely disturbed..you my friend have all the makings of a great artist. Well done ;)

Yes....Just.....Yes. I can so relate....It is very painful and restricting to be human.

I feel very similar, I HATE being human, and I mean HATE IT BAD. But thats because I am the oppressed.

Oainful and restricting is right, its a fucking crucifixion.

I think disliking being human is a more common thing among people here (and 'furries' in general) than most would like to admit.
I mean, what is a better motivation for wanting to be part animal than not wanting to be fully human?
Because humanity has lost something in its 'greatness' ...and i think we envy the other animals for that at times, and people like you and me wish we could go back.

actually, I learned the hard way in the old days that being an animal still meant you'd be abused, it just gave your abusers an excuse.

Learnd the hardway that there is no escape. it haunts me to this day, them days were so long ago. You and me, we belong somewhere above this sort of thing. I think that a part of being above includes being right to the less fortunate as well. you have a conciounse, what good would it do under someone's foot?

I guess we're in this together

wow! That's deep.

I dislike being human, but wouldn't really want to become an animal either; far too short a lifespan even natural for my tastes, so its not a hard decision for me. Not to mention what the hell could I do to stop the oppression if I wasn't capable of speaking through understandable means. Overall this a very touching, and moving piece of artwork.

Sometimes I'd give anything to switch places with them, to take their suffering upon myself rather than watch it happen. I work with Four Winds Equine Rescue down here in Texas, and I have four horses who were rescued, one who's just a foal. All of them are doing wonderfully now, they're fat and happy and get to run around the back pasture to their heart's content, Arrow (the foal) follows me around, chews on my hair and begs for treats, his mother mainly just stuffs herself and scratches on trees, while the other two are just...well...boys. Gelded boys, but boys all the same. Looking at them, remembering how sad and awful they looked when they first came here, bruised, battered, skinny, sometimes bloodied...and now, watching them gallop through the grass in the pasture, ears up, mane and tails flying while they enjoy themselves, having no expectations made of them, no one hitting them ever again, being safe and sound for the rest of their lives....it makes all the work more than worthwhile.

That's wonderful. :) For every person in the world who is cruel and uncaring about the plight of those who can't defend themselves, there is someone like you who gives them a reason to live. Or i'd like to think so anyway...
People like you give me hope for our species, in any case.

I have some pictures of them up on my DevArt account (arialyne) if you'd like to see them. I have an early one showcasing what Pepper looked like when she first arrived, and what they look like now. -sigh- they all need baths though...it rained, and they all went and rolled in the mud. You can barely tell what color they actually are now. xD

Do you know about human rights?