Celtic...yes the handling of pets..You are so right.
I do believe there are people beynd the majority of us.
Scott Peck wrote "People of the Lie" I have met several.They are mostly "I" people without empathy.In my type of work sadly those people did harm often and easiily.
Yet we must keep trying. Autism explaims some of this concept but there is more I am sure.
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