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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] Daniel: [QUOTE]Well, agree to disagree on this one. It depends a lot on definitions too. I mean, like Nim basically said, try defining love.[/QUOTE]What I said was that when it comes to that, we are more like animals than animals are unlike us. It might seem trivial to you but in social anthropology, it's certainly a big deal. ; But the main point here was "What's the big fuss about one cat, when humans are more important?". That's a bit of a blind spot, it's only half of the issue in this case. What if it hadn't been an old lady, but a 30-year old kindergarten teacher? What if the garbage bin had instead been a lidded waterfilled barrel? And what if this wasn't the first time? What affects people in news like this isn't just the victim but the perp, hence the picketing outside her house. Lack of empathy is a really bad road to go down, especially when combined with disgust towards trusting creatures, too often these are a gateway to sociopathy. That's why animal rights organizations have an important part to play in society (even though they get portrayed as soft and melodramatic by some), because they are just as much protecting humans as animals, by confronting and holding to account behavior that, if unchecked, lessens us as a group. [/sermon As for people not caring about human suffering in the news, that's media desensitization, one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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