I'm guilty of selective guilt. I think everyone is guilty of selective guilt in one way or another. So here's my selective guilt. I'm guilty of thinking certain animals are more pitiful when they are used as food as compared to other animals just because they aren't mainstream chow fodder.
I first realised this when I went to Geylang to eat a few months back while on a cycling trip. Let me make one thing clear though, people do go to Geylang to eat. Its what they do after they eat that separates them. For example going for a walk through Lorongs 10 to 12. I did that but its was for sightseeing only. No kidding. I wouldn't be able to get laid anyway because I'm a broke NSF.
I actually chose not to eat the frog legs that were the speciality of the restaurant because I thought the frogs were pitiful, when I thought nothing of eating chicken, fish or pork before. After the meal though, I realised that I was very wrong to have done that because if I wanted to pity those poor animals, I shouldn't be a hypocrite and pity them only because they aren't mainstream chow, like the poor chickens. It should be an animal-wide thing.
Thinking from another angle though, animals are there to be eaten. I mean mother nature put them there so that the ones at the top of the food chain survive right? So there should not be any pity actually because the frog has actually fulfilled its life purpose. Well, at least one of two anyway, the other being raising a family. The frog should actually thank us for giving its life meaning, although that's a little warped. Thanking your murderer? That's pure sado-masochism. Yucks.
I think the frog probably doesn't give a shit whether its life has meaning anyway. Its only us humans that are so particular with our grandiose fantasies of making the world a better place.
The frogs know better. Just live your life for the moment before your time is up.