While everyone else was watching the news about the Indonesian tsunami, Haji noticed a very short news item.
In Paris, three members of an animal protection organization had forcibly taken a stray kitten raised by a homeless man. During the struggle for the cat, they shoved the homeless man to the ground and grappled with him. The kitten wailed throughout, while the homeless man kept screaming behind them.
After the video spread, many people called the three animal protection workers cruel and devoid of sympathy or compassion. The animal protection organization, meanwhile, claimed that the homeless man had been using the cat as a tool for begging. They believed the cat had been injected with anesthetics and lacked all judgment.
That made Haji laugh. Did animals have judgment as long as they had not been injected with anesthetics?
To defend themselves, those people even released a video of the kitten living happily after being "rescued."
Haji could not provide Felix and Fiona with the material conditions for what some people considered a "happy family." If Felix were "rescued" like that kitten and went on to live happily, would he and Fiona be happy?
The existence of animal protection organizations made people feel that humans were worse off than animals. Animals still had people to help them, while people would not help one another and were instead eliminated, just like in Darwin's theory of evolution.
Haji did not want to be "eliminated," so he joined the local gang and began living a chaotic life unlike the battlefield. All he could do was try his best not to drag Fiona and Felix into it.
He was a genuine thug, but he did not think he would ever snatch a kitten from a homeless man's arms. He would only take the homeless man's