The value of life

                                                 Recently, Lucy gave birth to 4 beautiful pups.

By God's grace, they are perfectly healthy...

...and are being showered with lots of love.

Despite that, we didn't want them to be born.

When someone is born, there is a probability that they will suffer...

...especially those who were born without much

, who are weak...

...or homeless.

Then you'll say, if they aren't born, they won't have the chance to feel pleasure either.

But what I'm saying is that if you aren't born in the first place...

...you won't realize that you felt no pleasure.

Then people will argue that even humans should stop giving birth in that case.

But a huge difference between humans and animals is that...

...an animal does not have the same capability to ease another's pain...

...while a civilized person does.

Speaking of easing another's pain, especially an animal's pain...

...there are only 3 ways.

1. Do no harm.

2. Help those in pain.

3. Sterilization.

If the animal is not born in the first place...

...they will feel no pain.

Speaking of sterilization...

...people have 3 common objections.

Firstly, they say that it is unnatural.

This way of thinking that anything natural is right...

...is just a fallacy.

For example, mosquitoes and snakes are both part of nature...

...but we still protect ourselves from them.

We use mosquito nets and build houses to keep snakes out...

...which is interfering with nature, just for our convenience.

Then why can't we do the same to ease another's pain...

...especially for a species that wasn't even part of nature to begin with?

Around 15,000 years ago, humans domesticated wolves...

...selectively breeding them to create dogs...

...who were entirely dependent on humans.

Then, we left them to die on the streets.

The least we can do is control their population.

The second objection is that, nobody authorized us to sterilize dogs.

See, either the law gives us a duty in exchange for a responsibility.

Talking of the Indian Constitution, helping animals which includes their sterilization...

...is not only legally proper, but is also our fundamental duty.

The other right are those we are born with...

...like the right to live peacefully.

God has given us this right.

Then tell me, when people consume eggs, milk...

...meat or fish...

...why are these rights violated then?

Why does this argument only come up when we are going to help animals?

The third objection is that sterilizing dogs will make dogs extinct.

That's not true.

In India, most of the puppies...

...pass away within few months of their birth because of cruelty...

...harsh weather, hunger or illness.

So with sterilization, we are not taking away someone's life...

...but only preventing their birth...

...and saving them from a painful death.

These things are just objections.

The actual issue is that each one of us is accustomed...

...to the cycle of being born, living life and giving birth...

...which has been continuously followed by generations for centuries.

That is why, whenever we talk about the issue of preventing birth...

...people find it a bit odd.

We should not only think about life...

...but also about the quality of life.