[lbo-talk] Re:Pets -- Diana

[joanna bujes]

At 12:00 PM 05/09/2003 -0700, Curtiss wrote:
>How could you say that?  People interact with their pets; they're not
>like family, they *Are* family.  Diana was just an image for those who
>didn't interact with her; I can't understand how people who never knew her
>and never came close to her circles could be so upset when she died.
>
>Curtiss, late to the discussion, and probably off topic

I can probably say that because I'm not a pet person. It's not that I don't 
like animals; I just don't like domesticated animals -- so my sense of how 
they could be "like family" is uninformed at best. I agree that she was 
just an image, but there was a lot of emotion invested in that 
image...which is how I see people investing emotion in their pets. The 
analogy was not meant to be disrespectful to pet-owners. I apologize.

Joanna