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To: Poet who wrote (807)7/15/2001 12:02:29 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 1857
 
may mean that the next case of child abuse (like the one on the cover of today's NYT, for example) will be met with emotional numbing.


It may. But, on the other hand, our tolerating acting out in uncontrolled rage against helpless animals does nothing to stem the acting out in uncontrolled rage against helpless children or not quite so helpless adults. Brutality is brutality. Rage is rage. We need to stop both in their tracks, not wait until he or someone else throws a kid into traffic.

I don't have any way of knowing for sure which is more damaging long term, draining the empathy pool or tolerating outrageous acts against lesser creatures. My gut tells me it's the latter. I don't think this is a zero sum game.

Karen
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