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Originally Posted by alansmithee
Again, this doesn't show that these kids don't feel compassion. It would take a psychological workup to determine that.
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Bullshit. If you feel compassion for something you don't repeatedly throw it against a wall until it's fatally wounded.
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I'm not the most compassionate person, but I have little to none for animals. I don't believe they feel pain and emotions in the same way humans do.
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Then you're uneducated. Animals have pain receptors just like we do. They have nerves just like we do. And the part of their brains that processes pain is the same as ours.
If animals can't feel pain like we do (what the hell does that mean anyway?) then why does a dog that has been beaten cringe when you raise your hand toward it? Obviously the dog finds the pain of being beaten to be unpleasant.
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Animals are a lower life form than humans.
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Ahh yes. And anything that's not on your level should be tortured and then killed. Gotcha.
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But much of what I've been saying here is because I seriously think that people get too worked up over animals, and are totally desensitized toward human suffering.
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Bullshit. No one's advocating torturing people. Of your four quotes from this thread only one involves torture, and it's obvious that it's a visceral reaction that the poster would never carry out.
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I remember a board I used to visit would often post videos of decapitations (I remember the decapitations in Iraq being often posted), auto accidents, and other forms of human suffering. People would often make jokes about these. But they once posted a video of two guys setting a cat on fire, and most of those same people who laughed about HUMAN death were up in arms about some cat. Personally, I think people like those are much more mentally disturbed than these kids would be.
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Maybe, but that's not the TFP.
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And I see much the same attitude in this thread. I mean, take a look at some of these quotes:
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I did. I didn't see any videos of decapitation, car wrecks, or joking about the same. I saw only angry reactions because people on here feel compassion for living things that suffer. The fact that you do not is disturbing.
And again you throw up a quote in which the first half expresses a desire, not an action (I challenge you to prove that the poster would actually go through with throwing the kids up against the wall) and the second part involves teaching children not to torture animals - while you have made it patently clear that you don't think that's something children should be taught, civilized society disagrees with you.
And while we're at it, I should point out that the cat was innocent in this matter. It didn't kill the kids or their pets. The kids killed the cat. So being angry enough at the kids to express a desire to hurt them, but not actually go through with it, is much more understandable than to decide to kill a cat just for the sake of killing it.
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How someone who thinks children should be thrown up against a wall should be allowed to have kids themselves, or thinks they know how anything should be treated is beyond me.
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How someone who is so out of touch with reality as to think that EVERYTHING anyone says they wish to do, they will actually do can be taken seriously is beyond me.
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As was said earlier, if laughing at a cat being thrown against a wall is sign's of needing help, then wanting to seek out children and throw them against the wall is also a sign of needing help. Only I think the second is far more grave than the first.
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If the poster actually sought out children and threw them against a wall then I would agree with you. But TALKING about throwing cruel, inhumane children against a wall is MUCH more palatable to me than actually THROWING the cat against the wall.