i think its wrong…there are no absolutes some might say, but i think otherwise…
and nobody cares.
jk
Four thoughts:
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Las Vegas is messed up.
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Religion often causes people to do very messed up things, either because they are using religion to mask their true selves or because they are just not very intelligent.
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Who calls a pastor when your child is unresponsive in bed, even if his injuries are the result of your actions?
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“Markiece Palmer — who is 6 feet, 1 inch tall and weighs 150 pounds” if this guy goes to prison it will be way worse than the death penalty.
Only the Jedi say that, and that is itself an absolute. Stupid George Lucas.
Anyway, just throw the parents in general population. It’ll work itself out.
I don’t think religion is the cause of domestic violence. It’s just that stupidly violent and uneducated people are more likely to lean on religion as a basis for their lives.
Oh shut up. This type of sh*t goes down in every other country as well.
Am I desensitized? This doesn’t bother me somehow…as BS pointed out this s*** goes on all the time all over the world.
I hate to say it, but I kind of agree with you. I mean, I applaud and agree with everyone else’s reactions, but I was suprised not to experience the same visceral reaction as I have to other more graphic stories. Maybe it’s because I don’t have kids…
Anyhow, the driving dogs story was awesome!
I assume you don’t have kids.
I think the lack of kids is the thing. I would have been the same a few years ago. Not that I would ever do something like this, but my mind immediately puts into my head the image of one of my kids in the situation. There was just a story in Camden, NJ of a mother high on “the wet” (pot soaked in PCP supposedly) who decapitated her 2 year old sun with a household knife and stuck his head in the freezer before calling 911 to tell them that her kid was injured. I have a 2 year daughter and immediately saw her head in a freezer. Of course I could be a sociopathic timebomb that has yet to explode.
You don’t need to have kids to have empathy. In fact, say it wasn’t a kid. Let’s say they beat to death some random adult person for being a different race, gay, or something. That is not less disturbing to me. Or let’s say they beat a dog to death. I would be pretty angry if someone beat a dog to death.
^ True. I don’t have any Korean immigrants and certainly felt empathy for the guy killed on the subway the other day and his family.
I’m not disagreeing with you. I mean, I clearly felt it was crazy wrong, but for some reason it didn’t get the same visceral reaction of anger from me as some people and I felt a bit desensitized. When I saw the video of the afghani woman being executed in the news with a crowd cheering, that got me super angry. Not sure what the difference was for me.
At the risk of starting a flamewar I never understood the whole “beating dogs to death” thing either. Yes I’m talking about Michael Vick. I don’t see how unless you’re a strict vegetarian who abstains from all animal products, why you’d find it so bothersome. I mean something like 9 billion animals are killed each year in our factories.
FYI, I’m not a vegetarian. Don’t own any dogs either. (that might be why).
I don’t eat dogs… People look at different kinds of animals differently. Humans are also animals.
To me, bothersome is something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_San_Fernando_massacre
Or perhaps the genocide that is being planned in Syria as we speak…
“Markiece Palmer found the breathing, but unresponsive, boy in his bed between 6 and 6:45 a.m. on Thursday, the report said. Dina Palmer called their pastor, who told them to call an ambulance.”
Yeah, good idea. Call the Pastor.
I think the reason you don’t have the visceral reaction is because you know that the parents who killed the child is a one-off case of 2 crazy extremists. Whereas the woman being beheaded is a “systemic” issue, and there are probably multiple incidents of things like this going on.
I’m the same way man. I grew up on a farm and I think it gives you a very different view of animals in general. I grew up in a family that owned dogs too. I would never want to see dogs fight, would never condone it, and am glad it’s illegal. If I heard about it I’d think it was stupid and needed to be stop and that people involved were crappy people. But I don’t really get pissed off about it.
^ I’m thinking you didn’t beat your livestock to death though. As brutal as slashing an animal’s neck and letting it bleed out might be, it’s certainly more humane than beating it to death.