Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“Quite a long time ago, when our children were still children, they decided that they wanted kittens so we took a trip to the local Humane Society. … We ended up spending several hours waiting in line to receive one of a small number of permissions to adopt a pet, filling out forms, and then being interviewed by a Humane Society employee to make sure we were suitable adopters. What was puzzling about the experience was that kittens were and are a good in excess supply. The Humane Society had more of them … than it could find homes for …. Yet the Humane Society was deliberately making it costly, in time and effort, to adopt a kitten, and trying to select which lucky people got to do so, despite their knowledge that the alternative to being adopted was not another adoption but death. Why?” (12/16/24)