[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

It's entirely relevant when people are discussing what the appropriate action to be taken is. People are inflating the severity of the crime because they feel warm and fluffy about puppies.

No, your psycho babble about pets and stranger or strange pets and kids isn't relevant.
Of course people are going to react to this in an emotive way it's human nature.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

No, your psycho babble about pets and stranger or strange pets and kids isn't relevant.
Of course people are going to react to this in an emotive way it's human nature.

Yes just like the human and emotive way that people reacted to thousands of immigrants drowning in the med, or young students accidentally killing themselves with medication bought online or... oh no wait people are more upset about the dog.

Obviously.

We should probably just hang the guy who did it I guess. C'mon Dave, hurry up with that death legislation! Don't you realise that a puppy has been brutally murdered???


...meh. I can appreciate that I've been a bit all over the place in this thread, I guess, but I'm finding people's lack of any rational perspective quite bewildering. I always do when it comes to "poor puppy" cases.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Yes just like the human and emotive way that people reacted to thousands of immigrants drowning in the med, or young students accidentally killing themselves with medication bought online or... oh no wait people are more upset about the dog.

Obviously.

We should probably just hang the guy who did it I guess. C'mon Dave, hurry up with that death legislation! Don't you realise that a puppy has been brutally murdered???


...meh. I can appreciate that I've been a bit all over the place in this thread, I guess, but I'm finding people's lack of any rational perspective quite bewildering. I always do when it comes to "poor puppy" cases.

Oh come on... now your bringing up drowning refugees and deceased teens? :/
That really is lurching from the sublime to the ridiculous, I wouldn't say the measure of reactions could, would or should be comparable.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Oh come on... now your bringing up drowning refugees and deceased teens? :/
That really is lurching from the sublime to the ridiculous, I wouldn't say the measure of reactions could, would or should be comparable.

No, they shouldn't, the reaction to the death of an animal should be far less than the reaction to the loss of human life, but it's completely the other way around. The world is arse-backwards.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

No, they shouldn't, the reaction to the death of an animal should be far less than the reaction to the loss of human life, but it's completely the other way around. The world is arse-backwards.

It's not backwards, you can't expect those who have pets to not imagine that was their furry friends killed and express their shock and empathy, I just can't get why you struggle with the concept of compassion for this innocent animal.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

It's not backwards, you can't expect those who have pets to not imagine that was their furry friends killed and express their shock and empathy, I just can't get why you struggle with the concept of compassion for this innocent animal.

I don't struggle with people having compassion for an animal, I struggle with people having more time to express their compassion for an animal than they do to express compassion for fellow human beings. I struggle with this being a major news story, when you take a second to look at the things that are happening everywhere, every day, that are so much more horrendous that it's almost ludicrous. Because this is what sells. This is what people will bother about. This is what has lured people out of Chat 'n' Games to express their horror and disbelief. A bloody dog. It's depressing. It's depressing that the guy killed it, it's depressing that the owners had it locked in a garden bored and barking it's head off, but it's mostly depressing that people simply ARE - and admittedly - sadder and more upset about this than the countless horrors that are affecting people every minute of every day. I don't know. Maybe people just don't like to think about it too much? Poor puppy.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I don't struggle with people having compassion for an animal, I struggle with people having more time to express their compassion for an animal than they do to express compassion for fellow human beings. I struggle with this being a major news story, when you take a second to look at the things that are happening everywhere, every day, that are so much more horrendous that it's almost ludicrous. Because this is what sells. This is what people will bother about. This is what has lured people out of Chat 'n' Games to express their horror and disbelief. A bloody dog. It's depressing. It's depressing that the guy killed it, it's depressing that the owners had it locked in a garden bored and barking it's head off, but it's mostly depressing that people simply ARE - and admittedly - sadder and more upset about this than the countless horrors that are affecting people every minute of every day. I don't know. Maybe people just don't like to think about it too much? Poor puppy.

I think you're reading too much into this TS, there is a lot of horrible things going on in the world but it doesn't mean there's no room to be sad about a little doggie too.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I don't struggle with people having compassion for an animal, I struggle with people having more time to express their compassion for an animal than they do to express compassion for fellow human beings. I struggle with this being a major news story, when you take a second to look at the things that are happening everywhere, every day, that are so much more horrendous that it's almost ludicrous. Because this is what sells. This is what people will bother about. This is what has lured people out of Chat 'n' Games to express their horror and disbelief. A bloody dog. It's depressing. It's depressing that the guy killed it, it's depressing that the owners had it locked in a garden bored and barking it's head off, but it's mostly depressing that people simply ARE - and admittedly - sadder and more upset about this than the countless horrors that are affecting people every minute of every day. I don't know. Maybe people just don't like to think about it too much? Poor puppy.

Animals are superior to us humans. Humans are horrid creatures.