Morning coffee writing

Probably, this my "speech" can be attributed to the category of "sore".
Often helping animals requires not only physical and financial, but also serious moral costs. The issues and reproaches that we face on a regular basis include:
Why do you help animals, instead of helping people?
Sterilization is bad, you deprive the animal of the opportunity to experience the joys of parenting!
You violate the natural order of things, violate natural selection.

Of course, these are only the most common accusations that we hear almost every week.
I'm not sure that I know the right answers to these questions and accusations. But my position is as follows.

Help deserve both - people and animals. And everyone chooses when and whom he will help. Personally, I do not believe in a kind attitude towards people in a society where there is no kind attitude towards animals. It's just impossible. Kindness, generosity, self-sacrifice - they either exist or they do not exist. They can not be selective. In any case, not with this choice.

The issue of animal sterilization was very difficult for me. As a woman, I feel a great sense of pity when I decide to deprive them of the opportunity to have offspring. But these are my emotions. Common sense says that I have no right to allow uncontrolled reproduction of our animals. Secondly, sterilized animals are calmer. This helps to minimize conflicts and fights, which is very important with a large number of animals. And one more argument is that most females at a certain age have problems with the uterus, as a result of which we still have to do the operation. But it will be an emergency operation, instead of a planned one.

As for natural selection, here I have an unequivocal position. We do not in any way violate natural selection, because our animals do not leave offspring.

Perhaps I am too categorical in something. But this is my experience and my opinion. I proceed from the conditions in which we exist, from the peculiarities of my society. Sometimes, helping animals, I want to deal only with animals ...