Funerals for pets

Poor people in Britain whose pets die feel incomprehensibly attached to spending money they don't have, for funerals for those pets.

Overattachment to pets, and pets' corpses, leads to a perverse sense of values. If you are rich and you feel like burying or cremating a pet, it's harmless. But we must not stand for the idea that people have an obligation to spend so much on pets that they ruin themselves. That way of thinking leads to enormities such as abandoning refugees in Kabul to evacuate a planeload of dogs.

I would feel sorry for Freya when her dog died, but I would not cater to her mishigas.