2012-10-29, 21:19 | Link #41 | |
Battoru!
Join Date: Sep 2012
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My experiences killing animals have all been mercy killings, a surprisingly common occurrence in my life. I've often had cats who bring me badly wounded animals and often times when killing mice with snap traps, I'll encounter one whose back legs have been broken by the trap but who is still alive. In both cases I will break their necks, since they would otherwise be forced to endure a much slower death. But it still makes me feel sad even though I know it is the humane thing to do. As for the different layers of empathy, I agree that we have greater empathy for those who are close to us. But there is also a kind of empathy that most empathic people feel for even complete strangers. I mean if you encounter a badly injured person in a car accident, anyone would stop and call for help, unless it was obvious that someone had done so already. It's true that there is a logical reason to help that person, but it's not logic that causes us to act this way, it is usually empathy.
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