Let's get one thing straight, I'm not enlightened, far from it
. I have hang ups like everyone else, harmless stuff that offends me. Jokes about animal cruelty, for example, they're just jokes, and jokes don't harm animals, but they make me uncomfortable. But, at the same time, I don't tell people they shouldn't joke about animal cruelty, I recognise that it's my problem, it's my mind, my reaction to the jokes, my mental associations (because I work with abused and homeless animals) that's the real issue.