Sick, sick, sick, in Dundee

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Quoting kats from 13:59, 6th Jul 2007
Steveo - there is NOTHING worse than hurting children or animals. They are vulnerable! Of course, murder is awful, but can you honestly tell me that a murder is worse than abuse to a child or an animal?? Im sorry, but I would save an animal or a child's life over someone else any day without hesitation. There is NOTHING more important that a child or an animal. I would risk my own life for either of these.

what a strange comment. Abuse of a child and particularly abuse of an animal are small beer compared to murder. The criminal justice system would be a strange beast indeed if the above moral compass were to direct.

[Haunted]

Indeed. I'm trying to imagine someone risking their life for a black widow spider or even a nematode.

Quoting exnihilo from 14:40, 6th Jul 2007
You'd risk your life to save any animal? Or just cute, furry ones?

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[kats]

Of course adult rape and murder victims are vulnerable as well, Im not saying they aren't - im just saying that a child in particular hardly knows right from wrong, hardly knows what is being done is wrong, and likewise for an animal.

No of course I would not risk my life for a spider there is a limit - but what I am really trying to point out though is the crime is WORSE when it is a child.

[exnihilo]

Just putting it in CAPITALS does not make it so.

[Raindog]

I think it is the way in which they die in which we are most shocked at as we find empathy with pain. If it was a fast death then we would be less shocked.

[rob 'f*ck off' wine boy]

Quoting Raindog from 16:28, 6th Jul 2007
I think it is the way in which they die in which we are most shocked at as we find empathy with pain. If it was a fast death then we would be less shocked.

That may be so for some people, although for me it's just the utterly vulgar waste of time and life. These people should have something better to do, but above all it's the sheer stupidity that worries me - that the minds involved were so small that hurting animals provided some form of reward, not to mention the idiocy involved in entering an animal's pen to begin with.