Seems like two very odd things to put together I know but I just don’t understand how, if you have enough moral sentiment to care for elephants that you wouldn’t apply that care to your own species.

I don’t know where I stand on the elephant riding thing (part of me is against it, part thinks why is it any different to riding a horse) but someone I met last night expressed they wouldn’t ever ride one as it hurts the elephants. They would, and do, however frequently have sex with prostitutes though.

So much so they spent a good 5 minutes telling me about how great they think Phuket is as you can go out with your mates but then pick any prostitute at the end of the night. 

Now my views on riding elephants may be undecided but they’re not on people using prostitutes in the way this guy clearly does. I think it’s pretty abhorrent. So much so (and I’ve considered this in the past) that I think if anyone I was going out with told me they’d used a prostitute before that would be a deal breaker for me. 

It would be a deal breaker as I think it shows pretty disgusting lack of respect for you fellow humans to pay someone to have sex with you when they don’t want to (I make the assumption the prostitute doesn’t want to have sex with the person in question as otherwise surely they wouldn’t have to pay). That to me shows you don’t care about humanity as you’re willing to enforce yourself on someone.

But the elephants they care about?

It makes so little sense to me that someone could care enough not to hurt an elephant’s neck but yet have no regard for any emotional harm they cause another human by using them in such a way. 

I have to assume this guy doesn’t really actually care about the elephants, he just thinks it’s cool or in to say he does as I don’t know how else to understand these two conflicting views. Like I really just don’t even know where to begin.