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Originally Posted by DNSB
Do you also have issues with humans being abused or neglected? I always find the dichotomy shown by people who have no problems with a fictional human dying horribly to advance a storyline but blanch at the thought of an equally fictional animal being abused a bit strange.
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Why do you assume I don't?
The problem is that a book will obviously have a variety of human characters, some good, some bad; some victims, some perpetrators, some heroes. And often the reader doesn't know which is which until the end--that seeming good guy killed off in chapter one might turn out in chapter twenty to be a serial killer who deserves his fate.
But when animals appear, too often their main function is to be killed or abused as, say, a "warning" to the protagonist, and that makes me angry because that animal is ALWAYS an innocent victim.
And anyway, why does it matter to you where my greater emotional attachment lies?