If you want to diminish the tragedies involvedHuh?!? How the heck did *I* "diminish the tragedies involved"???
It wasn't *me* who posted post after post of apologia for vicious killer-beasts and the pathological "love" their owners feel for them, all the while neglecting to mention the *victims* of said vicious killer-beasts until about my 731st post in the thread... Who, exactly, is it who is "diminishing" the REAL tragedies here?
and stand in judgement over the reality of the feelings of others,Ooo, the big bad man dares stand in *judgement* of things! That might hurt somebody's pwecious *feeewings*, and we just can't have that, now can we? Yeah, well, sorry, but I *have* judgement, and am fully prepared to use it. That's what separates man from the animals, you know.
Furthermore, I wasn't actually *mainly* judging "the *reality* of the feelings of others" (although I doubted that too), but was primarily trying to explain that said "feelings" -- be they real or not -- are WRONG and BAD and STUPID(*).
based on newsbites from US newspapers,Ooh, how extraordinary -- he bases his judgement on the data available to him! So, what do YOU base YOURS on (if you ever have any) -- do you channel Shirley MacLaine, or...?
Your nature is duly noted.I dare excercise my rational human judgement over the apparent feelings of others based on the data available to me, and that somehow makes me a bad person?
So, are you saying that woman whose dog had killed her son DIDN'T spend all(+) of the interview with her afterwards making excuses for the dog? (If not, then stop whining about my sources.)
Or are you saying that the "real" love this shows she had for the dog somehow makes it *OK* for her dog to kill her son? (If not, then stop whining about my daring to judge.)
If neither of the above is what you're trying to say, then what the Hell *are* you whining about?
(*): Yes, feelings CAN be "wrong" and "bad" and "stupid". Obviously, if feelings like these exist.
(+): Or "most of", or even "much of" -- that would still be almost as bad, AFAICS. Or do you think it would be all right if she spent, say, equal time on the dog and the kid...? (And *I* am "diminishing the tragedies"! Give me strength!)