by Guest Tue Jun 07, 2011 6:13 am
Jord wrote: Rei wrote:Not that I don't feel sorry for the dog, but I'm kinda with RR on this. I would never feel the same empathy for an animal that I do for a fellow human being.
It's not that you feel more empathy. It's just different kind of empathy. I have a very strong hate towards animal cruelty and can't stand anything to do with it. I'm no vegetarian or anything like that but I do always think about how the meat I eat is killed and what not.
Expected better from you actually Rei.
So better is this case would be your reaction? You said in your first post that you feel sorry for people who bad thing happen to but cruelty to animals tear you up. That implies a stronger emotional reaction to what happened to the animals. You say it's a different type of empathy, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a stronger emotional reaction.
I think the question I should pose to you is this, if this story had a person instead of a dog, which would produce to stronger emotional reaction in you?
All I was saying was that I would feel more empathy towards to person in any case, not that I feel no empathy towards the animal.
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