These artificial distinctions are not necessarily bad, so long as we don't let them get in the way of sense. Were I to have a family, and they were starving, the cat's food is ours first, and Kitty is second. I'll not starve, nor will any of those I love, for any animal. Sorry, that's the way it is.
"Sentiment is swerving to avoid an animal on the road. Sentimentality is swerving to avoid the animal, thus going up on the sidewalk to hit a child you knew was there."
The first is OK, the second is dead wrong. "Down that path the PETA Side is!" |
