[OT] Poor kitty.

[Pazu]

I suppose you can assign those feelings and motivations to other people... but its more polite (and less likely to be wrong) if you actually listen to what people are saying for themselves. This is a female creature so driven by the need to be a mother that she ends up destroying the objects of her need. Its a tradgedy for the female and the infants being destroyed. Do not presume to tell us why we react the way we do. You are not qualified.

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And yet, the title of the thread is "Poor kitty", not "Poor creatures" or something more inclusive. Maybe that has something to do with his reaction?

if you are actually wondering this time instead of assigning, I will tell you. A potential mother who had become that unballanced would have my pity, yes, even if it was my child she tried to abduct. The pity might not be first on my list of emotions, but it would be there. "Felt she needed one" is also demeaning to the level of psychosis we are talking about here.

Absolutely; the potential mother deserves pity. However, for me, that pity definitely takes second place to concern about the well-being of the abducted child.

-- Pazu

 

[Tewligan]

You my "friend" have no heart.

Yeah, you jerk. What if that lioness, or even a sirloin steak, is reading this thread?!

 

[Kahuna Burger]

And yet, the title of the thread is "Poor kitty", not "Poor creatures" or something more inclusive. Maybe that has something to do with his reaction?

hey, I won't deny the cat was getting more attention, but the assigned reasons were, well, bs. (and insulting by their assigned nature.)

Lets face it, "prey animal killed by lion" is not exactly breaking news, now is it? The plight of the antelopes is pretty much the plight of the antelopes as a herbivore. The idea that we should rouse special pity for them because one lioness is three 'over quota' is kinda silly. But the lioness's situation is outside of the normal 'plight' of a predator, and into an emotional territory we don't usually associate with animals. The combination of this need to nurture on the part of "nature red in tooth and claw" with the tragic ending to each attempt is drawing pity in a way that an herbivore getting eated by a carnivore really can't.

For him to presume to tell us that we're more sympathetic to the cat because it's 'prettier'? A poor reaction.

kahuna burger

 

[Dinkeldog]

I'm going to close this one now, as it's really way off topic, and the attacks and somewhat thinly veiled political comments have already started. (You know who you are, and before you complain, yes it is a political comment, no it's not innocuous, and yes I could recognize it. Send me an e-mail privately if you want to claim it wasn't.)

As a side note, there's been a massive influx to the boards over the past month and it will likely continue as 3.5E gets closer. It would be nice if the more established members of the boards don't rise to flames some of the newer members that don't know the rules put out. Let us handle that behind the scenes or send them an e-mail behind the scenes if you really feel a need to respond.