[Polpolion]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/derbyshire/7831166.stm

Nice to know that we'll always have the support of our fellow man. I'm glad we can all count on each other. 

[Angelus]

Wow, just wow.

There are people in this world, that should, in interest of evolution, be castrated.

[Solatar]

The face of modern society.

Or maybe I'm just being too pessimistic...

[Flipside]

The IQ of a crowd is half the IQ of its stupidest member.

It's like a case in the US where a woman was stabbed and bleeding to death, and shoppers just stepped over her, some even stopped to take photos on their Mobile Phone.

The woman eventually died.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22015382-952,00.html

It's an Australian news source, but the incident took place in Kansas.

[iamzack]

Ohnoes, a *human* died while people were insensitive to it.

So? Just another animal suffering to death. Happens all the time.

[Flipside]

Pandas don't have mobile phones, or an Ambulance service, however.

[iamzack]

Another thing: if that lady in Kansas looked particularly like she had 5208743984392 kids, I'd have kicked her as well, for good measure.

[BloodEagle]

If ever a crowd needed a shooting....

[Polpolion]

Ohnoes, a *human* died while people were insensitive to it.

So? Just another animal suffering to death. Happens all the time.

Another thing: if that lady in Kansas looked particularly like she had 5208743984392 kids, I'd have kicked her as well, for good measure.

Oh, pardon me. I thought all people on HLP valued life, regardless of who it is. Sorry for the over-generalization.

[Daniel P]

I valued life. 

Yes some people are like that.

Or some people are sadistic.

[Flipside]

Some people simply say controversial things purely to get attention.

[General Battuta]

Reminds me of Watchmen.

The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up against their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!'... and I'll look down and whisper, 'no'."

I believe it was a similar event (similar to the Kansas death, not this tragic and unnecessary suicide) that kicked off his career.

[ssmit132]

  Some people are just jerks. (Not refering to anyone here )

[IceFire]

Alright...so one.  That whole situation is awful...its a tragedy because of the loss of life.  Its an ever greater tragedy for the whole community because of the actions of that crowd.  Absolutely terrible.

Further, its a spreading tragedy because apparently a few folks here on this forum seem to be having the same sorts of feelings that the crowd did.  Come on people....we are so much better than that.

[Mars]

I was going to ignore this whole thing, because I had a similar reaction to IceFire. But here's the thing, the entire crowd probably wasn't shouting the same thing - and there were probably people in the crowd not shouting anything at all. People can be terrible, and capable of terrible things - but there are always good people, they're just hard to find sometimes.

Cases such as these are fairly rare, more often crowds merely watch, in horror, as these sorts of events take place. Sometimes crowds help.

[Nuke]

people suck!
more examples of why the earth needs nukage

[Retsof]

Holy crap.  a person may be good, but people are evil.  Why didn't whover was standing next to the people yelling just deck him/her.  Knock a little sense into them.

[iamzack]

I value life. I just don't value the life of a human more than the life of anything else. Especially a human that doesn't matter to me personally. I mean, I'd feel more sad for a dead cat. Cats are at least cute. Humans are ****ing ugly.

But anyway.

My point is less "haha, die die" and more "how exactly is this news; humans are cruel to other animals all. the. time."

I'm just not good at articulation.

[Polpolion]

I value life. I just don't value the life of a human more than the life of anything else. Especially a human that doesn't matter to me personally. I mean, I'd feel more sad for a dead cat. Cats are at least cute. Humans are ****ing ugly.

But anyway.

My point is less "haha, die die" and more "how exactly is this news; humans are cruel to other animals all. the. time."

I'm just not good at articulation.

You see, the thing that I have against this kind of mentality is that you're ranking a persons worthiness. Animals aren't potatoes. People aren't potatoes.

The thing that gets me more worked up about this than I would a cat is that cats are never suicidal, cats are never goaded by their fellow cats to commit suicide when other cats love him as a cat; not because cats are "cute" and people are "ugly".

If people go through life not caring about what happens to your fellow man, then we're all ****ed. If you ever wonder why corporations and governments get so corrupt, this is essentially it: Not caring about anything else.

You can feel as sad as you can for a cat, believe me I feel bad when cats suffer, too, but I don't blatantly not give a **** when people get hurt just because they're people and not cats.

But if you'd rather see a person die than a cat, I guess you're already at a point where I'm not able to be able to point out that by being apathetic in this situation, you're pretty the opposite of the person you're trying to be.

And if I'm wrong and you do value everything equally, this being how much you value life in general, then you're way beyond me trying to persuade you otherwise.

[TrashMan]

people suck!
more examples of why the earth needs nukage

Seconded. Altough I don't think that will do the job.

What we need is anti-matter bombs or even better, a supernova.
What is becoming of our society, when actions like that aren't sanctioned. Those people should be publicly put to shame on a grand scale.