Veterinary Medicine

The moderate way is what is most effective in bringing us to moral and spiritual goodness. There are intellectual benefits to be gained too. Creative hunches and brilliant, fresh insights are most readily forthcoming where there is a clash between opposing (contradictory or contrary) forces or theories; the tension between these colliding theses and antitheses yield exciting new syntheses. Moderation is the intellectual practice of encouraging these clashes, observing the outcome, and then writing down one's rational and affective reactions to the result.

That being said, it is not selfish, pampered Western indulgence for people to expend thousands of dollars on their pets so Foofie can live another year, or escape from severe canine joint pain. First of all, the pet owners made their money, and how they wish to expend it is nobody's business. Second, that money could be given to a poor family, but, beyond a basic charitable obligation, the middle class is justified in spending its remaining funds as it sees fit.

Third, if the Leftists and Socialists elites, that rule much of the world, would allow American Peace Corp volunteers to indoctrinate and train all other peoples of the values of capitalism, bourgeois values, modern medical care, and the acceptance of Mavellonialist ideology, world poverty, hunger, illiteracy and illness would be wiped out or greatly reduced in forty years. Until they apply the right solution--privately funded and personally generated with little government intervention or regulation--lots of the poor are who we will always have with us. Depriving Westerners of hard-earned wealth to fund the upgrading of poor Third World families is doomed to fail until they embrace and flourish under Mavellonialist ideology.

Fourth, we do not want societal do-gooders  snooping into the personal affairs of others, bossing them and guilting them out as how to spend their money. We need a society of individualists, so the sacred, God-sanctioned principle of non-interference in the affairs of others (live and let live) must be applied in this instance as in any others.

Fifth, remember my first point. Creative and technological gains are best fostered where parallel lines of investigation are unfolding. Dogs and cats are still mammals, so the impressive gains in veterinary care is driven by bourgeois love of familial pets.

Human doctors and medical researchers should watch what their peers in animal care are doing, and vice versa, so this moderate compare and contrast juxaposing or clashing practices reveal new potential areas of advancement to further medical improvements.