Chula Vista

Nor do I.

I value the child victim at the hands of an adult a bit differently though.

She was a 7 year old kid for christ's sake. Stolen out of her bed in the middle of the night. For the next 48 hours she was sexually abused and beaten. At one point she was punched so hard in the face that the coroner found her broken teeth lodged in her stomach.

I'll f*cking jump up and down with joy the day he's finally put down for what he did.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

DwnWthVwls

Care to further explain? That sounds contradictory to me.

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Chula Vista

F*ck it guys, I'm out. Way too emotionally vested.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

I imagine he means that the type of person who is a child killer is likely more reprehensible than someone who kills an adult. I would agree actually. There's a psychological imperative that causes organisms to value the lives of their young more than full grown ones, and to overcome that probably takes a more aberrant individual.

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Chula Vista

Wait, what? Organisms?

Seriously, shut the hell up.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

Yes. Organisms. Loving your kids isn't just a human thing. Dogs, birds, lions, dolphins, apparently at least some dinosaurs.

You first, Mr. Bronson.

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DeadChannel

Why? Are people somehow devalued by the use of the word Organism?

I hate this. I hate how, the moment a technical sciency word is used for something like this, people perceive it as, like, cold and heartless. Which isn't the case. People are organisms. This means that they are alive. How does this devalue life?

W/r/t the question, I'm starting to lean towards your point of view (still undecided), but I don't dig on that type of bad logic.