Originally posted by PVS
yeah, but as quigon put it "there's always a bigger fish".
the occurance of more horrible acts does not render a lesser act of brutality superficial.i see what you're saying, in that any thread regarding current events -including real attempts at genocide as opposed to this symantics battle over the middle east wars- seem to fall like a stone in a pond due to complete lack of interest.
the chinese recently brutilised millions of canines and people gave a mild outcry. genocide attempt after genocide attemp in africa and i have yet to see a thread...but this one puppy is the last straw and sparks hellfire debate. yes, its odd and silly.
Seriously, though, the main issue is probably that animals have no way to understand what is going on. Torturing a human is a lot different than torturing a puppy, since the human is sentient and can understand what's happening to him. Torturing a puppy is like torturing a baby.
Also, puppies are adorable. People...not so much.
Originally posted by Soleran
It seems that no one can freely associate with such horror so it's hard to sympathize or even show empathy without understanding the true nature of the atrocity. One of those, unless you've seen it you cannot really imagine the terror.
Yeah, but it's also a case that to the rest of the world Africa is still, as Conrad put it many years ago, 'The Dark Continent'. I mean this in the sense that it almost seems lost and out of sight from the rest of the world. In any week, you'll probably see front-page news regarding North America, Asia, Europe, and South America to a lesser extent, but Africa never seems on the radar.
Originally posted by Soleran
Now on the other hand most everyone has seen a puppy and can imagine that being killed.
Oh, yeah! Can we ever! Woo!