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In reply to the discussion: So is a new trend? (IMAGE WARNING: ROASTING PIG) [View all]Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)people suffer. cruelty is cruelty, trauma affects people impartially.
A friend of mine and his little sister, right here in modern America,
white and even upper middle class, 4 and 5 years old, were forced
to watch their stepfather hang their bunnies from the clothesline, by
their ears, torture, kill and then serve them for dinner. That's one
sort of first-world early childhood education. "Head Start" for the
future overly sensitive but purportedly entitled ones.
Billy likes to keep those pictures buried deep in his psyche where
he can't see them. He isn't alone with such a story, and none of us
know who's here on this website. A little thoughtful headsup about
the content of a post, a little foresight within reason, is not a hardship
for an OP, and certainly causes no harm.
Disability in the psyche isn't a 1st 2nd or 3rd world condition.
Pain hurts, sorrow hurts, doesn't matter for whom or where. We can't
prevent all harm to others but some we can prevent.
The past was way back then. It still is, but here we are: it is now,
not way back then, it's now; it's the way things are, now; America
as you most likely know isn't doing so well with its first-worldiness.