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| Myslef, Mark Schmid, founder of the Organization for Animal Dignity and my dog Zeno, 2006. |
I (Mark Schmid) am an Asperger-autist and the founder of the Organization for Animal Dignity.
Sometimes I work almost full-time voluntarily and without a salary as an author, programmer
and webpublisher for the Organization for Animal Dignity. This is only possible because
currently I receive a disability pension. Perhaps due to my Asperger-autism I have a
special understanding of and relationship to animals, with which I get along
better than with most humans.
They laugh because I'm DIFFERENT,
I laugh because they're the SAME.
Something about me and my Opinion
The castration of a living being, without the testicles or ovaries having cancer, is an unnecessary severe sexual mutilation. It doesn't matter thereby if it's a human, an animal or a plant. This is a scientific fact, nothing more and nothing less.
As I am against any kind of degradation of animals, I am also against any kind of unnecessary mutilation and therefore also against unnecessary castrations of animals, which, of all societies, are committed by the masses in our supposedly "modern" society today. Animals are castrated especially often by people who perversely even claim that they would "love" animals. - Quite similar to bullfighters claiming that they would love bulls and pedophile child rapists claiming to love children.
Animals are castrated most often by women, or rather acquired for "fun", and castration is the "natural" consequence of that. By (female) animal owners, "animal welfare" activists and equestrians who want to use animals as living objects for the satisfaction of their needs, but who lack the abilities and the will to handle natural, unmutilated animals responsibly and correctly. I think in the last consequence, this is a true and for our society heavy weighing perversion, because true love does not mutilate the other, only to be able to satisfy one's own needs thereby. That's egoism, ruthless, mutilating and often also sexist egoism, not love, harmony or friendship and certainly not "true love", "true harmony" or "true friendship".
Because I stand with this, my opinion and also communicate this, I am sometimes accused extremism in the subject of castration and of hatred towards women, towards other "animal protection" organizations and towards equestrianism.
My standpoint in the subject of castration is not "extreme", it's just simply the standpoint of animals. And I am not generally being negative about women, equestrianism and other animal protection organizations either. All I'm saying is we must not judge from our standpoint. We must judge from the standpoint of the animals. We must go to the experts of the corresponding animal species and in questions regarding gender and sexuality, most certainly also of the corresponding gender. And these are the corresponding animals themselves. We must ask them, what do you need? What can you afford? What are the possibilities with which we might be able to help you? What do you really want?
They set their own goals and at every one time we can at most only help them to reach them. - Even if to us their goals might seem incomprehensible, useless or, especially in connection with sexuality, depending on our unknowing or ignorant standpoint, also as perverted.
We should be quite a bit more humble and not judge, because they do actually know well what their needs are. - Even if they are "only" animals. They know better than we. We should listen to them, accept them the way they are, learn to interpret their body language correctly, protect their needs and not in a paternalistic way realize our view of what's right for them.
A stallion which is kept isolated in a box stall, masturbates and bites his own chest does not "suffer" from his hornyness as women and men who have never been really horny themselves imagine. He does not suffer from supposedly having "too much" testosterone or from being obviously horny. He does not suffer from being a healthy male being and not a woman or a man for instance who has never been really horny. Even if this would suit us extremely well for his castration and for his following facilitated usage by us. He does not want to be castrated.
What he wants is more exercise, more social contact and entertainment and sexual satisfaction. If we make just a little tiny effort, we can give him all these things and thereby maintain his true nature, his needs, his dignity and his physical integrity. But that's not as convenient or as cheap as his castration is for us.
If we castrate him all the same, we must be honest and not claim that we did so "in his own best interest", in order for him to be freed of being a healthy male being. We must be honest then and say that we castrated him due to our own personal laziness, due to our lack of time and our egoism or to save our money. - Not for his own sake!
He knows exactly what he wants. He knows better than we do. And it's not castration. We must learn to be more honest, with ourselves and with others.
Castration really is not something which animals want. We all know that. They want to be loved not only in an egoistic and selfish manner, but also in a respecting manner, they want their physical integrity and their dignity, they want sufficient exercise, social contacts and entertainment, and, on top of all that, they also want a sex life which is as satisfying as possible, even if they will never be able to get anything more than self-masturbation. Castration of animals is something which only we want in order to be able to use them more conveniently for our ends. To be able to use or exploit them as pets, as riding mounts, as "friends", etc. But because we do not want to admit that we mutilate animals sexually in the most severe way, only to satisfy our own personal needs with them, we lie about it, and that most severely. We claim that we castrate animals supposedly "for their own sake", to make life "easier for them", to "allow" them to be objects which were robbed of their own ends and dignity. And thereby we suppress the fact that the animal did not force itself onto us, but that we chose the animal, we bred it and we bought it or took it to us, not the other way around.
So the damage which castration of animals does, is not only to the animals themselves, but also to us. Because we castrate animals, weaker beings which depend on us, just to satisfy our needs, castration is a form of extreme egoism. Nothing else. And because we don't like to admit that because it's so horrible, castration in a very severe and strong way promotes not only extreme egoism against those which cannot defend themselves against it, but also our very severely lying about it.
So that's what castration of animals does as a "side-effect" to us humans and our society, and due to the extremely high number of animals castrated, very severely: It promotes and propagates reckless egoism and lying. It promotes egoism and lying in an extremely strong way in those who castrate animals or have them castrated: Pet owners, women, families, equestrians, animal welfare activists, zoos, circuses, etc. In short, castration of animals promotes extreme egoism and lying in our society like nothing else.
Have you ever wondered why there are so many lies in our society, in the media, etc.? Now you know one reason.
The truth is: You cannot cut off the sexual organs of a living being and expect such an action to have no negative consequences. It does, for everyone involved.
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