Battling against ignorance

Why this country (Turkey) is going down the pan through blind ignorance and religious stupidity....

On the CHP (Republican People's Party) page (allegedly the party of the more educated secular left) a dimwit declares that one unspeyed female cat will give birth to six kits and these animals will create a further 42 offspring before one year has elapsed. The extrapolation went further with hundreds of cats resulting.

That's the first bullshit. The average litter for malnourished mothers is 3 but let's say 4 for the sake of argument. Not all of them will survive and indeed it's our experience that even with our help (good food and vet visits) only one or two on average will survive the first year (cars and predators get most of them in the end). But let's say two. The second piece of BS is that the OP implies all offspring will be females. Duh! So even in the best case scenario one cat gives birth to three females and they produce a further 12 making 18. The reality is that the figure is more likely to be around a total of 6. But many expats here go to great efforts to spay them all because we want cats to be a cherished rarity and not a nuisance.

Here is where it all gets really interesting. When my wife pointed all this out to them the comments were bizarre. One poster worried that cats would become extinct. Others (far too many) said that spaying was murdering the unborn. Others said it was against Allah's will and spayers would go to hell. Not one of these fuckers would lift a finger to help street animals but suddenly they are all experts and concerned about cats.

I despair.