I am slowly loosing faith in humanity. (not for the faint of heart)
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So does mean I have the right to now go around and start declaring that no one can use the right word in the right context. There is no need for this kind of misanthropy just because one person did it that one time as the actions of one should not speak for a group. Otherwise we may as well get people's children and families to server their gaol sentences with them. You know, because they are all dirty scum bags.
Also where is my source?
Also where is my source?
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I agree, I bet most of the people here disgusted by the puppy-killing still eat meat. While I'm against needless cruelty to any animals, in a world where humans are killed and tortured every day someone killing a few domesticated wolves is hardly notable of the scale of wrongness.Thespian said:
I was really just about to post something along those lines. Good job.Thespian said:
OT: Don't lose your faith in humanity because we aren't all douches or idiots many of us are but not all of us. If you do you'll just end up making yourself sadder and why would you want that?
I got my terrier from my aunt who saved him from the exact same fate.
Plenty of humans are cruel, but many try to be decent people.
And comparing a puppy to a spider... there's a big difference there.
But there's plenty of dog-lovers who destroy rats and mice with ease, even though rats are more intelligent and also more human then dogs can ever hope to be.
Plenty of humans are cruel, but many try to be decent people.
And comparing a puppy to a spider... there's a big difference there.
But there's plenty of dog-lovers who destroy rats and mice with ease, even though rats are more intelligent and also more human then dogs can ever hope to be.
Yes, that would be much more efficient. After all the law was written with the intent of deterring people from creating these kinds of threads. :3 Honestly though, it wouldn't bug me as much if they changed it from 'faith' to something like 'trust' or 'approval' in or of humanity respectively as faith is a concept I would feel most people on these forums deem to be illogical and thus makes a bad tool for measuring one's affinity with the species as a whole. What bothers me a lot more is not so much the notion of holding humanity in low esteem as I myself wouldn't argue against that, but it's the reasoning behind it. They seem to be saying that for all of the thousands of years genocide, slavery, bigotry, oppression, avarice, injustice, famine, ignorance, demagoguery etc. that humanity is responsible for the thing that apparently broke them is some girl throwing puppies in a river, or some twat leaving his wife and kids for an 18 year old or something else that lets face it in the grand scheme of things is pretty fucking inconsequential. The phrase and these threads in general seem like nothing more than myopic kneejerk reactions to something they find personally abhorrent. I've yet to see an OP start a 'faith in humanity' based thread with any modicum of thought put into it.Shanicus said:
Grammar Nazi Time!
The thread's title is "I am slowly LOOSING my faith in humanity.(not for the faint of heart)"
How can you "loose" your faith in humanity? Is that some sort of semi-physical construct that can be loosed like tied shoelaces? There's a space missing before the first parenthesis, and the parenthesis should be included inside the sentence, not set apart.
Yay for useless linguistic pedantry, I guess.
As for the topic itself, yeah, the OP is a latecomer in some respects. You need to understand that even in countries with very stringent animal control or protection laws, shit does seep through the cracks. I don't know how Russia handles its animals or what is its history as far as their humane associations go, but that could've happened anywhere else in the world. It's only because someone was stupid enough to vlog it that she was condemned.
As for it being the cause of your loss of ability to believe in our better judgment, OP, this is somewhat extreme. If anything, that girl's reputation alone has been tarnished. It's not because she's responsible for drowning puppies and too oblivious to grasp the concept of what she's doing that it paints all of us as genocidal monsters in the making.
The very concept of losing your faith in humanity is so overplayed, especially on the 'net, that it's been robbed of any meaning. I've seen people claim that sort of disillusion in a deadpan-serious manner because their favorite football team lost the Super Bowl, if that's any indication.
The thread's title is "I am slowly LOOSING my faith in humanity.(not for the faint of heart)"
How can you "loose" your faith in humanity? Is that some sort of semi-physical construct that can be loosed like tied shoelaces? There's a space missing before the first parenthesis, and the parenthesis should be included inside the sentence, not set apart.
Yay for useless linguistic pedantry, I guess.
As for the topic itself, yeah, the OP is a latecomer in some respects. You need to understand that even in countries with very stringent animal control or protection laws, shit does seep through the cracks. I don't know how Russia handles its animals or what is its history as far as their humane associations go, but that could've happened anywhere else in the world. It's only because someone was stupid enough to vlog it that she was condemned.
As for it being the cause of your loss of ability to believe in our better judgment, OP, this is somewhat extreme. If anything, that girl's reputation alone has been tarnished. It's not because she's responsible for drowning puppies and too oblivious to grasp the concept of what she's doing that it paints all of us as genocidal monsters in the making.
The very concept of losing your faith in humanity is so overplayed, especially on the 'net, that it's been robbed of any meaning. I've seen people claim that sort of disillusion in a deadpan-serious manner because their favorite football team lost the Super Bowl, if that's any indication.
It's not humanity.....
It's a few terrible people.
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Though I'll be honest, I giggled my ass off at the video. Yeah, it was wrong and she should be punished(which she was), but the way it was shot just seemed funny to me.
P.S. I love the new captcha. Lord Inglip is speaking much more clearly now...
It's a few terrible people.
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Though I'll be honest, I giggled my ass off at the video. Yeah, it was wrong and she should be punished(which she was), but the way it was shot just seemed funny to me.
P.S. I love the new captcha. Lord Inglip is speaking much more clearly now...
Umm... there's more slaves now than when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The market for child labor continues to grow. Since the Western Powers swore "never again" in response to the holocaust we've had almost 70 years of quiet "ethnic cleansing" going on Somewhere in the world. Wealth is pretty much more concentrated than it was since the time of the feudal lords, and religious extremists (of ALL religions) seem to be in a race to out do each other in terms of their zealotry.
So I really don't know how anyone can say the world is getting "ethically" better. We might know what we're doing is wrong these days whereas before we wouldn't care but we're still doing it.
So I really don't know how anyone can say the world is getting "ethically" better. We might know what we're doing is wrong these days whereas before we wouldn't care but we're still doing it.