More bad people who make the world worse: Animal Liberation Front loonies begrudging a 10-year-old boy dying of cancer his last wish. He wanted to go on a bear hunt. He got to go on a bear hunt. He was too weak to hold a gun, so his dad killed a bear with the boy at his side. The child died on the flight home to Georgia. Not my idea of a great way to spend one's last hours on earth, but still, the kid was dying, and bear hunting is legal.
Says one commenter on the ALF discussion board:
I can only hope the boy's death was a painful one. If you think about it though, this story has a somewhat happy ending. A young boy dying; therefore he can not grow up, spawn some other mutant losers and teach them how to hunt. I wonder how satan is treating him???
Who wants to contribute to a fund to help dying children hunt members of the Animal Liberation Front? Just kidding. Mostly.
(Via The Corner)
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"Breaking news: Person Says Something Stupid and Offensive on Online Discussion Board!"
Kyralessa, what you do here is not breaking news.
Sorry.
The double standard drives me crazy.
Can you imageine if, instead of a 10 year old hunting a bear, it was a 15 year old girl getting an abortion, or a Parkinson's patient receiving some experimental embryonic stem cell treatement, and pro-lifers were caught hoping that the victim's death was painful and only wishing that she had died before, rather than after, the deed was accomplished?
It would be front page news, splattered across every left blog about how lacking perspective pro-lifers are. We can never show anything but absolute compassion for those that procure abortions or seek embryonic stem cell treatements. Any failure of discipline will be punished.
But animal activists can dance on the grave of a 10 year old and suffer no apparent loss in credibility. Their kooks can be dismissed as internet freaks.
I don't know that it would be front page news if some poster on a discussion board said something really nasty about a young girl who had an abortion.
It doesn't matter if your on the far left or far right. With mainstream America, you have no credibility. You can't lose what you don't possess.
"It would be front page news, splattered across every left blog about how lacking perspective pro-lifers are. We can never show anything but absolute compassion for those that procure abortions or seek embryonic stem cell treatements. Any failure of discipline will be punished."
Absolutely absurd. Crazy things get said on Free Republic and pro-life extremists websites every day, and they don't end up on the front page. Heck, crazy things like that get said at NRO and by Michele Malkin on a daily basis, and they don't end up on the front page.
Hmmm -- take a look at what happened with conservative commentary on the Frost family. I don't think any conservatives wished for a more hasty death or additional suffering for anybody, yet they were still lambasted for "demonizing a family."
And I was in favor of S-CHIP.
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