[Phantom Hoover]

Consecutive reports in tonight's Channel 4 news:

- Mental health funding in the UK has been slashed, patients are being detained indefinitely in police cells because there is no space on wards.

- Someone set fire to a dog shelter yesterday. Donations have already topped £1 million.

**** that.

[Lorric]

I'm the complete opposite of you people, it seems.  Animals provoke no emotional reaction in me whatsoever.  I find it amusing when a game or movie (or a non-fictional thing) presents the death or suffering of an animal as a tragic thing because I quite simply don't care.  There has never been an exception to this.

That's unusual.

I might be another unusual one in that the distinction is not animal or human it's circumstance. An animal and a human in the same circumstances would elicit the same emotional reaction as a general rule.

[zookeeper]

I'm the complete opposite of you people, it seems.  Animals provoke no emotional reaction in me whatsoever.  I find it amusing when a game or movie (or a non-fictional thing) presents the death or suffering of an animal as a tragic thing because I quite simply don't care.  There has never been an exception to this.

Well, sure, that sounds rather unusual. How does it work with humans, then? Would you care (more) about a human in those same situations, or do you only care about specific humans (and if so, how do you choose which ones), or do you not care about the death or suffering of other humans either?

[Phantom Hoover]

I watched Seven Psychopaths recently and, well

You can't let the animals die in a movie... only the women.

[Aesaar]

I'm the complete opposite of you people, it seems.  Animals provoke no emotional reaction in me whatsoever.  I find it amusing when a game or movie (or a non-fictional thing) presents the death or suffering of an animal as a tragic thing because I quite simply don't care.  There has never been an exception to this.

Well, sure, that sounds rather unusual. How does it work with humans, then? Would you care (more) about a human in those same situations, or do you only care about specific humans (and if so, how do you choose which ones), or do you not care about the death or suffering of other humans either?

I definitely care more if it's a human (or intelligent aliens) involved.  Animals just completely fail to get an emotional reaction from me.  Hell, I had a greater attachment to the tank in Halo 1 than I had to, say, the Mabari hound in Dragon Age: Origins (though, to be fair, that could be said about most of DA:O's characters).