jamahir
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Very nice heart touching, keep doing good work
thank you.
but I would say u should not stop her to feed dogs at least she is helping the poor creatures...their miseries are not less than human just because they can't speak out or beg we should not ignore them....They are living things like us, feel love anger and have emotions...instead of hating them we should try to slow down their population by sterilizing them...
sterilization doesn't work because it doesn't remove the dog-ness from the dog - the cruelty, the aggression, and the ganging attitude... this is easily known to the local peta type persons like maneka gandhi but they forward it because it allows them to threaten municipal bodies and not allow the killing of dogs... people like maneka gandhi are a favorite of the neo-rich middle-class in india.
OLD Homes: We need to build old homes for those who don't have any relatives or simply their loved ones left them.
I used to visit my uncle home quite often, on the way I saw an old couple always sitting outside of their home (in front of a main gate, once I stopped and trying to give them money but they politely refuse and handover me a list and 2000 rupees saying that if I want to help them bring medicine and other stuff mentioned on the list....
I enquire my uncle he told me the couple have two sons both very rich and are bureaucrats living in Islamabad who ditched old parents...and just sent them money every month...the couple was too old even barely can walk many time tries to hire servants which cheated them now the couple living with the help of strangers and neighbors...
so they retained dignity despite their material poverty... admirable but sad.
such is the tragedy of societies where people from childhood are pressured by relatives and schools and neighbors and media and especially parents to attain a "high salary" status without considering that they really are being prepared to become components in a anti-human capitalist machine that doesn't care for inequalities and miseries... many such being-prepared people succumb to this brainwashing and backstab their friends, don't help their relatives, don't care for strangers and in the end abandon their parents like the old couple you wrote of... the abandoned parents in many cases are really events that have come full circle,
to add to your words, old age homes are necessary... so many south asian families are not the best examplars of humanism... we have "honor killing", we have property disputes, we have behind-the-back cruel bickering and so on.
look at fidel castro at age 89... still writes and is a force for good in the world... likewise, just because bureaucracy declares someone as "retired" shouldn't mean the end of life... and the best preparation for old age is not a stocks investment or property investment but participation in the creation of a system where material and spiritual comfort happens at every stage of life.