Metaphysics and the Dog Lover

I just had one of those conversations with an individual that is all for the ban on greyhound racing.

The main argument proposed was that 17,000 dogs are killed by the industry for one reason or the other, every year!

I suggested that if the industry had been banned then those 17,000 dogs would never have existed. And won’t in the future.

Thin grey smoke, cogs a-clunking, spatial dissonance of the eyes; it appears that you can’t mix metaphysics and the dog lover.