It goes along this line
of thinking, and I'm guessing it applies to you: if you work your ass off, put in tons
of time,
energy, creativity, even money on writing and promotion, and yet your work doesn't get the
kind of rewards you expect (let's say financial for simplicity's sake), either because that's life or because your publisher doesn't recognize the effort or your publisher drops the
ball (it happens)... And in another area / format, etc., you work your ass off, put in the time, etc., and it DOES succeed in the way you expect or in a way that seems to be equivalent to the time and work you put into it, then it makes sense that THAT is where you should continue to put your time,
energy, money, etc..
Does that give you a right to practice the worst form
of cruelty on an animal, anesthetized or not, which is the cutting off and removal
of their
balls and the cutting off and removal
of ovaries, the complete destruction
of their joy and
energy and motivation, just because you think
of yourself as some
kind of «do - gooder» for society's idiots and their unwanted pets on the streets?