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Originally Posted by Lunar Delta
Wow, that could seriously have been me. As a child, I would always get VERY upset over those kinds of things
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When I was little, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom would practically have me in hysterics sometimes, lol. Like the lions taking down whatever prey they were after... I couldn't believe the horror! This can't be true!
There was a song that my parents would play when I was very young. I'm not sure how old, but every time they played it, they said I would start bawling. They finally had to stop playing it till I got a little older. But, even then, the song bothered me because it always sounded like wolves howling in pain or fear. So I'm not sure how cognizant I was at the time I first heard the song, but it definitely affected me.
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Originally Posted by shadowfax
Empathy is a human trait. Unless you happen to be a sociopath you are born with empathy to some degree or another and the trait can be strengthened through use. Some people just have different levels of intensity often due to childhood experiences. I don't believe that to be empathic means to never take a life. It just means that that life means something and deserves to be treated with dignity and appreciation.
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If every animal on earth gave up killing
something, whatever it is, to feed itself and stay alive, we'd all be in trouble.
And I strongly agree with the second bolded sentence, too. And with as little cruelty as possible.
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Originally Posted by shadowfax
I a highly empathic and have no problem with eating other animals or accepting the fact that sometimes life needs to be taken either so that others may live or in order to end suffering. But the I don't look at death as the worst thing that can happen to any creature.
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I don't either. And there are waaaay worse situations much of the time.
Sometimes I think people go a little too far in trying to save and rehabilitate very badly injured animals, when maybe they would be better off just being put out of their misery.
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