The Editor,
Re: "ET views love on planet Earth," Letters, Feb. 15.
As an ET (Extra-Terrestrial) still trying to understand how earthlings behave, I was puzzled by two articles appearing on page three of a recent daily Metro Vancouver newspaper.
One four-column article with a bold headline read, "BC SPCA investigate after cat found frozen." It described what appeared to be a cruel act by someone who had frozen a cat's body in a block of ice.
The second, a one-column article adjacent to it had a headline that read, "Watchdog to review child deaths." The article stated that during the last quarter, beginning Oct. 1, 39 children receiving government care had died and 123 others had been critically injured. The chief investigator is reported to have said these numbers were "not surprising."
I returned to my peaceful planet where all life is sacred, bewildered by what seemed to be a very strange relative value of human children.
Merrill Muttart
Richmond
