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pipi_k

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13. I guess that depends

Mon Dec 30, 2013, 12:20 PM

Dec 2013

on how one thinks that "breed" got to be the way they are.

Were they born that way? If so, then would it be reasonable to say that they can't help it any more than someone can help having some sort of congenital disability. Would it be OK to laugh at a mentally disabled person? I would say probably not.

If they weren't born that way, it must mean somewhere along the line someone else MADE them that way. In which case, wouldn't it be reasonable to look upon them in pity and remember the saying, "There but for the grace of God go I".

Because, you know, each one of us could have been this close [] to having the same influences in our lives. An accident of birth could have given any one of us a whole different life, and we would be on the other side of this.

Do intelligent, compassionate, "liberal" people laugh at others for things they may not be able to help?

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