Every psycho that goes that far or anywhere near it is a sign of the failings of our communities in my book.

Guevarista wrote:
That sounds good on paper.

But what if you arrived home one day and someone was acting "unhealthy" towards your wife or daugher? You find your wife being raped and beaten, what are you going to do? My point is, it's all well and good getting to the bottom of someone's "symptoms" when their behaviour hasn't affected you personally.

"Oh, it seems you've raped and murdered my wife...pray tell what is the problem my friend?". Are you going to call the emergency Unhealthy Behaviour Team?

Maybe I'm not getting it, or getting mixed up Perhaps I'm unevolved.

It's a nice idea though, not sure if it would work in reality.

This is two different ways of treating phenomena: if some one is acting unhealthily you use empathy and investigate the symptoms try to treat the causes, if some one is acting “bad” we assume authority tell them off and smack their bum, lock them away etc, empathy does not mean molly coddling and baking cookies for some body, it’s a realistic method of understanding one’s environment., calling some­thing evil mystifies one’s immediate environment.

All is a big word RA

I'd say that there appears to be at least some psycopathic animals so no would be my answer.

And if we witness or learn of someone treating a cat like a cat treats its prey, we are baying for blood....

dubmeup wrote:
Cats...they enjoy slowly murdering their little playthings Oh how we forgive them for it though, forever stroking their soft fur, listening to them purr.

Selective empathy?

What does false equivilancy mean?

This is an interesting thread development.

What does that mean? I'm not taking the piss.

What does that mean? I'm not taking the piss.

"Apples and oranges"

dubmeup wrote:
What? That I've finally ran out of intelligent input?

I'm quite tired