don't die any quicker than the other slogans - as defy original thought. I can see how the point about the dog might be grasped, and the point about a child missed. Can't you? Maybe 'empathy' is too loaded a term to describe a frequent lacking.

We are not inherently rational creatures IMhO, especially towards other creatures - I believe that is merely the hobby of a few. Notice how long it has taken to barely imagine.. the intelligence of whales, say. And til quite recently: of 'negroes'. Here anyway.

In many ways, small children are seen as 'negroes' too. (I believe they 'see' lots more than is credited, but lack the language - certainly exceptional ones make this manifest)


Ashton