I have been doing a lot of reading about the topic of ethics for the last two years. In order to understand why, you may want to know a little bit about my background. I came to the United States after living most of my life in Africa, I have seen some amazing human rights violations in my time there. Children were killed by leaders that attempted to show their powers, diseases were spread and all of the evils in the world were very clear. I figured that coming to the United States would provide me with the world as I had imagined it for so long. After arriving here, I began to realize that people do not hold all of the same ideas to be true. Some people are against hurting dogs and others are just fine with the idea. This variety has lead to my current need for reading on the subject.