Are you overly-sensitive to images of cruelty?

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I wouldn't say I'm any more sensitive than anyone else is to it. I think it's important to see some things so you can learn from them. For instance, me and my family will be making a trip to Washington D.C. very soon and I plan to go the National Holocaust Museum. My mother is very adamant on not going while it's very important that I do.

No, only animal. I can't look at animal suffering at all I get so upset.

Unless its a nature show or something.. I'm OK with a dear getting eaten. I don't think I'd like to see a dear get shot or die of starvation or disease, though, so not sure what the distinction is.

A cruel world topic

I do not like to look at images/videos of gratuitous violence to people, animals or property, whether contrived or real.

I prefer that human beings try to work out differences without resorting to violence or threats of violence, though I know that this is a tall order. But, we can still try.

...Except, they didn't deserve so :/

I am glad I didn't come back as PolPot or Stalin, either, SplinterStar. I could have won the reincarnation lottery and come back as your dog, Sheba, though. How wonderfully loved that must be!

My mother, was 25 when Pearl Harbor was bombed. She kept scrapbook after scrapbook of war news, large posters folded up and all crinkled with age of characters with buck teeth and yellow skin and grotesquely slanted eyes all with banners to "Slap the Japs" and "Nix the Nips." Her devotion to the jingoism she had been taught to hate and demonize people she had never met before was surpassed by her passionate belief in the Ku Klux Klan was necessary to keep down the 'uppity' negroes that might molest her on the public streets.
It was both sanctioned by the majority of people where she lived at the time and fear and hatred of Orientals, Japanese especially, was taught in the schools and with posters in the Post Offices and public buildings encouraging hatred and discrimination.

Before you critize being taught prejudice, remember the feelings of people that react since 9-11 to people of Muslim heritiage in our culture. Times may have changed, but if you were taught to hate, and have it sponsored by the State, it stays with you all your life, as evidenced by our ruveyn.


With God On Our Side

Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side.

Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the country was young
With God on its side.

Oh the Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I's made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side.

Oh the First World War, boys
It closed out its fate
The reason for fighting
I never got straight
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.

When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.

I've learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war starts
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.

But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.

In a many dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.

So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God's on our side
He'll stop the next war.

Copyright ©1963; renewed 1991 Special Rider Music

My father is racist and homophobic and raised me accordingly. Knowing where and how he grew up, I understand how this happened, but I also understand we all have a choice to refuse this legacy of ignorance and hate.

Very much so. Animal cruelty gets to me the most though, as they have no voice and are least likely to be helped vs people.

I hate violence and cruelty. I have walked out of more movies than I can count because of violent scenes, and in fact I will rarely see a current movie anymore. I have known people who will happily sit and watch all kinds of horrible cruelty, and then get incredibly upset at the sight of an exposed breast. I find that incomprehensible.

It really angers and upsets me and makes me wonder WHY, when I read stories about kids sticking cats in microwaves for fun or dragging a dog down a road behind their vehicle.

I can't watch Itchy and Scratchy on the Simpsons. I always cover my face and hum till its over. I'm not quite so bad with real Tom and Jerry, but I get the same problems with Wiley Coyote, etc. It's embarassing, because people think I'm being silly.

As you can imagine, I rarely go to the movies!