Pigeons, Strays & Us: The Complex Politics Of Compassion

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Urban compassion for strays & pigeons reveals how individual empathy can unintentionally fuel public conflict.

As if human hostility weren’t enough, our cities are now arenas for a quieter but no less polarising conflict—this one involving animals. Not lions and tigers, not wolves howling at the edge of civilisation, but the creatures we live beside every day: stray dogs and city pigeons.

The debates surrounding their care—or lack thereof—have pitted compassion against public health, poetry against practicality. And, like so many modern disagreements, the contours of this one are shaped less by logic than by something older and deeper: our collective psychology.



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