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I didn't just drop it in the thread. I was commenting on the story where a swan killed a guy. I commented about the vicious behavior I witnessed in swans which forced me to kill one.

I used to jog through this park around a lake where they would hang out. Usually we just coexist, but sometime they would get cranky and confront me a bit. This one time though, I don't know if I got close to a nest or whatever to prompt the reaction, one went particularly crazy and started chasing me. The damn thing traveled a bit faster than me so it was getting some shots in which hurt quite a bit. I didn't feel like running from a swan and being attacked all day so I stopped when I found a tree branch and bludgeoned it. I didn't necessarily mean to kill the thing, but it died.
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

I didn't just drop it in the thread. I was commenting on the story where a swan killed a guy. I commented about the vicious behavior I witnessed in swans which forced me to kill one.

I used to jog through this park around a lake where they would hang out. Usually we just coexist, but sometime they would get cranky and confront me a bit. This one time though, I don't know if I got close to a nest or whatever to prompt the reaction, one went particularly crazy and started chasing me. The damn thing traveled a bit faster than me so it was getting some shots in which hurt quite a bit. I didn't feel like running from a swan and being attacked all day so I stopped when I found a tree branch and bludgeoned it. I didn't necessarily mean to kill the thing, but it died.


Think of all the swan-spawn you prevented from being born. It's exponential you know, through all history.

Tut-tut-tut.
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

I didn't just drop it in the thread. I was commenting on the story where a swan killed a guy. I commented about the vicious behavior I witnessed in swans which forced me to kill one.

I used to jog through this park around a lake where they would hang out. Usually we just coexist, but sometime they would get cranky and confront me a bit. This one time though, I don't know if I got close to a nest or whatever to prompt the reaction, one went particularly crazy and started chasing me. The damn thing traveled a bit faster than me so it was getting some shots in which hurt quite a bit. I didn't feel like running from a swan and being attacked all day so I stopped when I found a tree branch and bludgeoned it. I didn't necessarily mean to kill the thing, but it died.
 
Touchy!  I got the context in which you dropped your Swan Murderer comment.  It was the lack of explanation for this Swan Murder I was commenting on.  Now I understand how you could have come to Murdering A Swan in Cold Blood. Shocked
 
I like the bit about Swans Hanging Out Like they're a group of 'Off the Rails' Cygnets.LOL
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Well at least it wasn't a rabbit or he'd be the one pushing up the daisies. Tongue
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I was only putting it out of its misery! Unhappy  The Bunny was asking for it!
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Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

I was only putting it out of its misery! Unhappy  The Bunny was asking for it!



Who could kill a bunny?

Only Hitler, shouts the prosecution, only Hitler.

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No. Hitler actually loved animals. 

Yes, you are worse than Hitler. You have achieved it. 
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Godwin's Law - end of thread.
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Yes.  Close the thread.  When people start comparing my killing of a soft fluffy bunny to the works of a certain moustachiode Austrian German you know the thread is over.  The Bunny got what it deserved.  First it started staring me out (with its one working eye) then it started following me.  I quickened my pace and it did likewise.  I started to run and it lolloped after me.  Panicking as it nipped at my heels I grabbed a twig and beat it to death mercilessly over the next three hours.  YOu see it wasn't my fault.  It was the Bunny wot did it to itself.
 
 
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Report: Net migration from Mexico has plummeted to zero thanks to changing demographic and economic conditions on both sides of the border, a new study shows, even as political battles over illegal immigration heat up and the issue heads to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Not exactly news:

How Wealth Reduces Compassion As riches grow, empathy for others seems to decline


and:
Secret Service sexcapade has also embarrassed Colombians


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In that wealth article, I feel like the authors of the study reach a rather strange conclusion. I haven't read the study since they have it behind a wall, but the article nowhere indicates that a distinction was made between born rich and made rich. I think the lack of compassion could make sense in the former but not so much the latter. After all, empathy takes practice. Someone from a background devoid of the hardship of the lower class would naturally have trouble empathizing. 
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^Sadly, many people forget where they come from. And they want to. Psychologically they put barriers against it. And society even sells them the idea that once they have climbed the social ladder there's no going back.

Who gets rich off the war on drugs...
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^They forgot public law enforcement and legislatures. 
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

In that wealth article, I feel like the authors of the study reach a rather strange conclusion. I haven't read the study since they have it behind a wall, but the article nowhere indicates that a distinction was made between born rich and made rich. I think the lack of compassion could make sense in the former but not so much the latter. After all, empathy takes practice. Someone from a background devoid of the hardship of the lower class would naturally have trouble empathizing. 
 
Working with the populations I do, I find the hate among the poor for poor in other demographics is quite startling. And it comes down to the famous scene from Mississippi Burning I've referenced before.
 
I think the following quote from the article is probably very accurate...
 
"Piff and his colleagues suspect that the answer may have something to do with how wealth and abundance give us a sense of freedom and independence from others. The less we have to rely on others, the less we may care about their feelings."


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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Originally posted by Negoba Negoba wrote:

Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

In that wealth article, I feel like the authors of the study reach a rather strange conclusion. I haven't read the study since they have it behind a wall, but the article nowhere indicates that a distinction was made between born rich and made rich. I think the lack of compassion could make sense in the former but not so much the latter. After all, empathy takes practice. Someone from a background devoid of the hardship of the lower class would naturally have trouble empathizing. 
 
Working with the populations I do, I find the hate among the poor for poor in other demographics is quite startling. And it comes down to the famous scene from Mississippi Burning I've referenced before.
 
Compassion is another issue, and I'd have to think about that a little more.


Yeah I can agree with that from my experience.
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Here's the scene I was referencing. I remember getting chills the first time I got to "just a story about my daddy" when I first saw the movie.
 

Anderson: Down here they see things a bit differently. People down here feel something's are worth killing for.

Ward: Where does it come from, all this hatred?

Anderson:
You know when I was a little boy, there was an old negro farmer that lived down the road from us, named Monroe. He was ... (subtle laugh), I guess he was just a little more luckier than my daddy was. He bought himself a mule. It was a big deal in round that town. Now my daddy hated that mule. Kuse, his friends were always kidding him about, "They saw Monroe out plowing with his new mule and Monroe is going to rent another field now he had a mule." One morning that mule showed up dead. They poisoned the water. After that, there wasn't any mention about that mule around my daddy. It just never came up. One time we were driving down that road and we passed Monroe's place and we saw it was empty. He just packed up and left, I guess, he must of went up north or something. I looked over at my daddy's face, I knew he done it. He saw that I knew. He was ashamed. I guess he was ashamed. He looked at me and said, "If you ain't better than a n****r son, who are you better than?"

Ward: I think that's an excuse.

Anderson: No it's not, excuse. It's just a story about my daddy.

Ward: Where's that leave you?

Anderson: With an old man who just so full of hate that he didn't know that being poor was what was killing him.
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Biggest story in Australia and Turkey at the moment


Lest we forget....






Members of the Light Horse brigade take part in the ANZAC Day dawn service at Currumbin.
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http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/25/210198.html

Quote Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW) has appealed to the Islamist-dominated parliament not to approve two controversial laws on the minimum age of marriage and allowing a husband to have sex with his dead wife within six hours of her death according to a report in an Egyptian newspaper. 
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"...adding that a woman also too had the same right to engage in sex with her dead husband."
 
 
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well, rigor sets in after 3 hours...
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One for the road???

 
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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