It's a tragedy when humans cannot distinguish a person from an animal, and it's a tragedy for both humans and animals when the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals selects certain animals for special protection above all others. I'm referring to their letter which you published on August 24 ("Wolves belong in the wild").

With thousands of dead, unwanted pets being tossed into the county dump every few weeks, PETA chooses to complain, all the way from the East Coast, about a couple of extremely well cared-for wolves from the Phoenix Zoo. We already have a word for preferring one human race over another, and I think there's a word to describe what PETA is doing: absurdism.