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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (920)	7/17/2001 9:20:45 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1857

Animals that attack and kill people should be treated humanely. We have had several pit bull attacks around where I live, and the animals have been humanely put to sleep. Try to remember that the man who threw the dog is a animal also, a human one, as we all are. No matter what he did, he does not deserve to be brutalized for his crime- because that turns YOU and me and all of society, into what he is. I feel the same way about child molesters. I do not want them brutalized. I think, because they are so very difficult to rehabilitate, they should be killed painlessly. But wishing brutality on another person turns you into the thing you wish to punish. (imo)

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (920)	7/17/2001 10:13:54 AM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 1857

That's a terrible thing to say-- right up there with JC's "I know how you feel". Some people are stunningly thoughtless in the things they say- to anyone about anything. You wondered if those people would ask the same thing had you lost a child or husband. I think yes they would- and have. Things like, "How lucky that you have other children". "Do you think you'll remarry?" When my mother died after a long illness, people said some of the oddest things to me. One person actually said that Mother must have had an easier death than my father because there had been so many advances over the years in pain control! ( I lost both my parents to colon cancer- neither death was much fun and I didn't spend much time comparing the quality of their respective experiences) I don't think this kind of thoughtlessness has anything to do with whether the subject is animals or children- we're talking about being sensitive to what others feel-- whether we think it reasonable or not. Poet said it well. And if I offended someone because I personally believe that there is no comparison between the love we feel for a child and the love for a pet, I am sorry. It wasn't meant to deny that the love for a pet is not real and deep and true or that pets don't enrich our lives immensely, providing companionship and affection when we sometimes feel very alone in the human world.

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (920)	7/17/2001 11:21:54 AM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1857

I agree with the comments about insensitive remarks- At the same time I wouldn't come down too hard on the people that make them. It is so hard to know what to say, when you become involved in another's tragedy. We went to a wake for a teenager (good friend's daughter) who was run over by a tour bus at a rest stop, with her mother a chaperone on the bus. Whatever we mumbled to her tear-streaked face as we passed in the line, it may well have been awful. I cut these people a lot of slack for getting it wrong on such occasions. JC Edit: I didn't realize I was answering your post, hollander. Thanks so much for your kind comments earlier!