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Originally Posted by hammerfan
But, what you said seems very insightful. You sound like a decent person with a good sense of right and wrong. Not everybody has that. A lot of people these days have a skewed sense of right and wrong. Let's take it down another path and talk about people who abuse animals. Another "hot button topic" for me. If I ever saw someone - child or adult - abusing an animal, I think I would go psycho on them.
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It's really the only answer that I can come up with the support the reliance and allegiance of gangs. If there is no supportive family unit, the family unit is broken (single mom/dad), or the child is from a working family (mother and father are not around), the gang would serve as a surrogate family in the absence of those familial and parental influences. You see these cases more in lower socioeconomic situations where both mothers and fathers are forced to work and also the rate of single parents are higher (think about a single mother taking care of a son who is pursuing the typical father figure - a gang member could easily serve as that paternal strength and protector).
But anyway.
I definitely agree with you on animal cruelty; it's something that evokes a specific and strong response from me; I have a very difficult time seeing animals being abused, even in film and on TV when I
know it's just part of the script; the thought of the abuse honestly haunts me (also with rape or child abuse scenes; they disturb me and I have a difficult time watching them).
What confounds me is how people simply
do not believe that animals have feelings. It's true; my ultra-conservative friend Liz honestly does not believe that animals have feelings; I would get pissed off when she would kick my cat or toss her off her lap. But people feel that way.