It’s about tolerance.
I don’t like many things but one man’s meat is another man’s poison. As I’ve said, to me a dog’s bark is not pleasant. If there’s one thing I’ve never understood it’s how, to some people, it’s like The Moonlight Sonata. No it isn’t! It’s more like a loop tape of Thrash Metal FFS!
I’m okay with some barking and even enjoy it as a greeting or during a bit of playful fun; but that’s it! Unfortunately, a dog can bark at its own shadow indefinitely, as indeed many do, so I have to tolerate it.
I hate the kids shouting and screaming in the Spring and Summer months outside my home. I’m sure to their parents, (sperm donors or slags or whatever they are), they are just having a bit of fun. But I wonder how they would like it if I left my motorbike revving outside their house for a few hours? It’s about tolerance and what any one person likes or dislikes.
Other options? Buy a house with land so that my cat can roam without bothering anyone. I can’t afford to do that, so it would become elitist. Maybe keep it on someone else’s land, like a horse? That seems a lot of money for little reward too, and I wouldn’t have the cat nearby so I may as well not have one. Hmmm, now there’s a thought..
Don’t have a cat at all just in order to please posters on forums who don’t like cats taking a dump on their property? I could do that I suppose or just lie about having one, or lie about sticking a nappy on it's bum.
What is land anyway but millions of years of dead and rotting biological matter. Am I the only one here who goes on country walks? The pathways take you through fields of dog crap, cow crap, horse crap, fox crap, headhog crap, sheep crap... and all sodden in animal pi$$. Should we do something about that too?
I watch where I’m going and hopefully avoid it; I don’t complain to horse owners and famers that they haven’t stuck nappies on their animals for my convenience. It’s called tolerance.
To borrow from Shakespeare “for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Or maybe I’m just surrounded by intolerant to.ssers. I dunno...