August 1, 2006
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Death
Total deaths of Americans in Iraq since war began: 2577
Total number of children that starve to death every day: 40,000
Estimated average number of abortions a year in the US: 1,300,000
Brutal death of a hamster beaten against cement block: 1
Which number do you think causes the most outrage from the typical person on xanga?
Comments (303)
first?!
2nd!!!
the hamster. there’s just no reason for that to happen. that was done by a sick person
i would hope the abortions….but probably the war.
Well, I can tell you which number causes the most hysterical laughter…
The hamster thing continues to amuse me.
The War in Iraq.
2nd.
poor hamster…. oh well, i’m sure it was fun to see the hamster explode, as it probably did. abortions are STUPID.
Where did you get that statistic from anyway? Or is it hypothetical.
Probably the abortions… stupid religious nuts.
I would say either the war or the children… and probably the children.
hamham
to me, the children.. but the average xangan would probably think the americans in iraq.. =[ so , so sad.. its also sad that no one else has said the kids.. =[
it should be abortions, because those deaths we CAN do something about.
the children who strave to death… are really poor…
My guess is that you got more of a reaction about the hamster than about any of the others…Which is kind of sad.
oops.. i messed up.. with the ‘no one else has said’ thing.. oh well..
wait, what the heck?! we kill more babies than people are killed in war, more than children who starve to death, more than HAMSTERS ARE BEATEN AGAINST CEMENT BLOCKS?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????? Keep killing babies America, and you’ll have no ‘next generation’. And that means stop having casual sex you sick minded freaks!
I don’t know much about the ‘typical’ person on xanga. The hamster thing was kind of disturbing, but eh. None of it outrages me, i’m kind of numb to numbers and sstatistics.
Wow Dan~ You are really bothered, aren’t you?
HMMM…tough one, hope I inspired you a bit on this one.
1,300,000 US abortions a year
14,600,000 children starve a year internationally
there goes THAT generation
Well assuming the majority of Xangans are American, and many modern Americans are stupid liberals who just wish we could all just get along and avoid unfortunate but required wars, I’d say the soldiers killed in Iraq stats would bother people most. It should be abortions though.
-Jared
I have a better question.
Why beat a dead horse? Honestly, bringing up the “Hampster Debacle” over and over and over again only feeds the flames.
I really didn’t care for the story myself…. and couldn’t imagine doing that to any kind of animal at all…. but that’s just me…..
the hamster, because people are somewhat ignorant. although based on some of your commenters, dan, the abortion stats would probably be next. personally, the children starving outrages me the most.
14,600,000 is the number of children who starve to death in a year. They starve because people are greedy and selfish. Not because there’s a shortage of food. We have more than enough to change that figure but we’d rather get rabid over a hamster.
The American children, not the British children? Who’ll save the British children?
the abortion one
hamster, but the abortions get me.
yeah because children are awesome.
“The death of a man is tragic, the death of a million is a statistic” – Stalin
that is true. ^ except a hamster is not human.
Number 1 was a choice made by them to be in the Armed Forces.
Number 3 is not killing since there’s nothing to kill.
Number 4 is a joke.
So, Number 2 bothers me the worst.
ohmygosh.. that hamster thing is terrible. but i think its the first one.
REEEALLY.
Dan, you’re a fuckin’ riot! I assume that you’re sitting back in your theo’s chair laughing your ass off because you know how angry you are making people by driving your point home…over and over and over! My problem is that I’m finding it more and more difficult to find things remotely interesting to say to these. Fuck!
mine was the iraq war, i mean, iraqis are dying too, our people are dying, they’re don’t have the right stuff, so that infuriates.
so does aborion because maybe if contraception was taught in all schools there wouldn’t be as many unplanned pregnancies
no woman should feel so trapped that she must decide to get an abortion.
and the starving people, world bank . fuck ‘em
ugh, the english bastards that carved up africa really messed it up.
Xanga people, probably Iraq. Me, the abortions.
What about the 39000-44000 (approx.) Iraqi citizens killed since U.S. occupation began? Why doesn’t anyone give a damn about them?
Hopefully not the last one but I think the first one does.
Abortion doesn’t outrage me. I’m pro-choice. I just don’t think abortion should be used as a means of birth control.
It’s the abortions. At least it is where I come from. Oklahoma’s a very conservative state and every abortion seems to be an insult pointed in God’s direction as well as a brutal murder of a poor, innocent being. I don’t necessarily agree with abortion, but I do feel that it is a woman’s choice on whether or not she wants to have the baby.
And as for angelheaven72, who said the only statistic on this page we can do anything about is the deaths from abortion, that is ridiculously untrue. We can definitely do something about the amount of children starving to death in the world each day. All we have to do is contribute to charities and get our voices out. There’s simply not enough people these days standing up for what they believe in. There’s not enough people who aren’t afraid to get up and yell “There’s something wrong with this world and dangit, I want to do something about it!”
RYC: Heh, thanks. I need all the luck I can get.
any death that could have been avoided is bad to me
Why, the hamster, of course!! LOL I can’t help but be amused. I was thinking similarly as your post states. Ridiculous.
most people are concerned about the war…
not that the war is unimportant, because it is, but people just don’t care or are too busy to worry about the other two… and it’s sad
I see the point you’re trying to make. I generally worry about our soldiers and starving children so much that a welcome my outrage about the death of the hampster.
Abortions. People in America should either practice safe sex, abstain, or live with the consequences of being irresponsible. Also, the number of abortions in countries who have one child laws, like china, and those who put great importance on the sex of the child, like males in India, is far higher than the number in the USA, where the population is of lesser number and there are higher moral values attached to life.
Not #2 because most of those deaths cannot be saved by one person’s choice. The complexities are endless. Warlords in Africa, devastated economies of post-Soviet nations, and most important of all, the farmers who provide the food in the first place. When you think about it, they end up paying the taxes that they get paid with to sell their food, which is then sent to destitute nations’ governments where there is no efficient way to distribute the food. It’s a sad mess…
And Most definitely not #1. Go find and talk to non-political Iraqis. They will tell you that the country is a better place since Sadaam’s government was replaced and that they are greatful for it. You only hear about fighting in 4 of the 18 provinces of Iraq anyways. It’s a complicated matter that takes too long to explain when you can go find the truth if you really try.
define “typical”.
for me it’s the number of defenseless babies being aborted.
Is the number of Americans dying in Iraq the number of soldiers? If so, then they died for a cause. They are doing their heroic job.
The number of starving children – hopefully – have someone to go to battle to prevent such an epidemic.
While the hamster was brutally killed, it was quick and the hamster was sick and dying to begin with and so the owner felt it to be mercy killing. A little alarming, maybe, but, come on! It was a hamster!
But who will stand up and defend the life of 1,300,000 innocent babies? It’s a silent holocaust, imo.
from the reaction on your site, the hamster.
we’d have to see what a typical xangan is….
1.3 million a year?
that’s staggering…..
the thing is I sympathize with those women because of the desperation of their situation….I hate when men get all preachy and judgemental because they don’t have to make that choice
I’d say the war or hampster most definitely are getting the most attention…… Abortions happen far more than they have to. And I think it’s sickening how little attention the 40000 starving children receive. North Americans are so self-concerned
please do respond to my xanga
The hamster.
That’s cruel.
Taking a life isn’t supposed to be fun or enjoyable.
The person should go to jail.
RYC: I’m on now, but you’re not, lol.
good one. well done.
Brutal death of a hamster beaten against cement block: 1
Not everyone on Xanaga is within the US. Those are US factions. and US numbers.
and to whoever said that the abortions don’t count because there is nothing there to kill anyway…
so you just appeared out of nothing?…. yeah, didn’t think so.
“Not everyone on Xanaga is within the US. Those are US factions. and US numbers.”
the starving children one isn’t.
Abortions are never carried out with malicious intent. They don’t fit into the same category as beating hamsters against cement blocks.
the abortions…. even though theres nothing wrong with them and population control doesn’t have to be a bad thing
Oh I thought that was the number of starving kids in the US
well i think that question is subjective Dan….the hamster hit a raw nerve with people because it was a bit brutal even if it was jsut a hamster…I don’t think people are equating it with or making it more important then war, starvation, or abortions….I just hink it hit a raw nerve…
However I still stand with hampster because of the way it was done.
for me it’s the 40,000 children who starve to death…
Dan are you on crack?
Probably the stat about the number of soldiers that have died, but Im not really sure about Xanga’s demographics…so it could be any of the others.
LMAO!!
Apparently, the hamster. =P
*smirking*
typical number? abortions.
for me? people starving.
Well just imagine how upset people would have been if the hamster was a POW that was beaten senslessly until it aborted its unborn zygote/fetus/infant leaving it’s live progeny to starve to death.
Could you imagine what would happen if all those babies were born? Talk about over-population. I say the number of children that starve to death is just sad. We waste food, and there are people who starve to death. That’s just wrong.
I think he meant causes, not would cause if they saw the figures. and I think it’s the first one.
i think for typical xanga people it goes like this:
1. hamster
2. abortion
3. iraq
4. children
(i think it should be:
1. children
2. tie between abortion/iraq i guess.
4. hamster)
14,600,000 out of 6,300,000,000. Not to say that 14 millon people should die, but that’s damn good odds compared to 100 years ago. Seriously, who thinks that it is any worse off now than it was in the past? Who can be blamed for this? Oh, I know…George W. Bush. he is directly responsible for taking the food out of 14 million mouths, and failing to sign legislation banning the euthinsation of Hamsters….shame on the right wing…they have no compassion.
here’s another fact. More people are ALIVE today than have EVER DIED in the entirey of Human history…ponder that for a moment.
I know that this has nothing to do with the question, and I’ve only read the first page, but I bet if I inspect the rest of the posts here someone will mention George Bush or Republicans…
if it was you…you are an idiot.
The statistic on abortions is pretty damn scary to me.
To people on Xanga, I think #4 is most startling.
This is getting rather redundant……..
http://www.hamsterdance.com/
Probably the deaths in Iraq, cause that gives us a clear villain, someone to blame all the world’s troubles on, same with the hampster, where as the abortions and stravation, guess who’s fault those are?
RYC: If you only read one, I recommend either of the Orwell books (1984 or Animal Farm). If you read 2, I recommend Life of Pi by Yann Martel. I think anyone who has a Xanga called thetheologianscafe should read it. It has a really great take on religion.
You really love hamsters now dont you.
It really pisses me off that people have sympathy for a dumb rodent but not an embryo or even the starving children…wherever. Dude, go down to wallmart and buy yourself some RAT POISON, or MOUSE TRAPS and then ask yourself…is chemically melting the insides of a rat, or smashing it with a trap any less humane?…seriously- Get some fricken perspective.
The one done with the most MALICE and NEEDLESS CRUELTY would be my choice.
The aborted kids don’t really bother me because let’s face it–life ain’t that great. I’d be much better off if I was aborted. Now that I’m here, however, I’ll continue to survive as long as I am able.
If they really are pure souls, they’ll go right to heaven and not have to put up with all the shit we have to put up with down here.
I think I’ve bitched enough about the lying Bush propaganda resulting in the loss of innocent civilians and soldiers in Iraq so that I can’t be shamed for that.
And I’ve also bitched about the number of children that go hungry on a daily basis–especially since I happen to be one of them on occasion.
It’s the senseless cruelty of slamming an innocent creature (one that TRUSTS you, for Christ sake) onto cement until it’s eyes pop out and acting like its a big fucking Hardy Har Har “oh, his eye popped out.”
I think THAT is what put the pack on your buddy’s ass.
I didn’t see any of it till she was already gone, but if I had, I’d have most likely went over and told her she was a heartless bastard.
Of course, I do prefer the company of animals to the company of people.
An animal will never LIE to you. Never CHEAT you. Never BEAT you. Never spread malicious lies about you. Never hate you because you are not physically perfect. Never be your friend to your face and your enemy to your back.
If they ever bite you, it’s probably because YOU deserved it.
Anyhow.
That’s it for me.
I pledged I was staying away from here because these recent posts have made me very annoyed with you. Shallow and mysoginistic (VERY awesome word, that one is) are words that come to mind. But, my morbid curiosity makes me look
And when I saw this, I had to comment.
Because, FUCK! Torturing a little critter to death IS a bad thing. Even if you CLAIM it is a mercy killing.
Oh, and it REALLY made me laugh (in a sickened and sarcastic way) when the woman said she was doing it to save her son from being infected with some dreaded hamster disease.
Shit.
The little guy probably had cancer or ulcers from being kept in a filthy cage.
one would hope that the number of children killed through abortions each year stirs up the most reaction; however, after following your posts for a few days now, i know that it was the hamster’s death that caused the most, shall we say, needless, outrage.
Abortions or war deaths. Personally, I find the war deaths most upsetting. But that’s me.
Sadly, it’s the hamster that causes the most outrage. I got plenty of flack for blowing up the teddy bear my ex gave me…I still think the photos and video footage are hilarious. Apparently this makes me a sick person.
What about insect spray…it liquifies ants. what about roach traps. it intices them with good smelling food that they take back, feed to their family, and soon it poisons the eggs, the workers, the queen…everything. It’s Roach Genocide.
Seriously, grow thicker skin. I swear, this Generation is built on emmotional and Bass-ackwards morons.
This is sad.
well i dont know if those numbers are right and i dont really care; i just know hes trying to make the hampster look like its not important since he supports the death of them by pavement so he bring in all these other things. Its still death?? however starving to death doesnt snap your spin in 3 places and make you bleed out your ears and mouth like smashing a hampster into the pavement does. plus soldiers know they are going to be killed way before they finish basic training……. how did that hampster know he or she was going to be smashed???
Hamster
poor little innocent hamster. so what.
Tell you what I’m going to do. I’m going to go buy a Hamster, then I will tape it to a rocket or something, light it, and see if my hampster can make it to the moon…sadistic enough for you? How about this…I’l video tape it, post it, and see how many people tell me I’m going to hell.
You people irk me.
lmao i love you. well judging from yesterday, i’d say the last one. but then i’m like..so interested in abortion that i’d also have to say that one. but then there are those anti-war/bush people that would make me say the first one. and the second one is just..no.
Oh, definitely the hamster!
The world accepts the murder, maiming, starvation and torture of humans but when it comes to animals all hell breaks loose.
Yes! Ridiculous!
I was gonna say ‘way to put it into perspective’ but not many people seem to be getting that perspective. I’m personally more concerned about the abortions because it’s closer to home than the starving children. It’s probably mixed up, so I’ll consider that tomorrow. I’m tired now…
Oh, I see I’ve been missing out on the fun around here.
Can you imagine how many more starving children there would be if there weren’t that many abortions??
Oh and why do people only mention Iraq? How about Afghanistan? There have been 418 soldiers killed in Afghanistan – 323 of those being American soldiers. There have also been 795 Americans wounded in Afghanistan, and those are only the reported injuries. Yes, Iraq has suffered more casualties - but OEF should not be forgotten, I have been to too many memorials for the soldiers in our unit killed there for anyone to say that we are not at war in Afghanistan.
Total number of children that starve to death every day: 40,000
Estimated average number of abortions a year in the US: 1,300,000
And on a related note–if those 1,340,000 aborted fetuses all were forced to be born, there’d be 43,561.6 children starving to death every day.
Math. It ain’t just for breakfast any more.
Tell you what I’m going to do. I’m going to go buy a Hamster, then I will tape it to a rocket or something, light it, and see if my hampster can make it to the moon…sadistic enough for you? How about this…I’l video tape it, post it, and see how many people tell me I’m going to hell.
You people irk me.
Posted 7/31/2006 at 11:56 PM by Evowookiee
Then you’d be a fucking idiot, wouldn’t you?
Gee people piss me off, so I’m going to torture an innocent creature just to show them bleeding heart animal lovers! That’ll prove I’m a MAN with a giant DICK because I can kick the ass of an animal that weighs less than a sack of peanuts.
The word FUCKTARD was made for people like you.
While I’d say most on Xanga are more concerned about those lost in the war, the number of babies murdered through abortion, and the number of children who die to starvation are the numbers that really bother me.
RYC: I added Catch-22 and Lysistrata to my list of books. Have you read them?
I’d say the abortions. People just go nuts about it. I already saw that people are going nuts about this new pill.
Me personally, the children starving. If I had a child now, send it through the system, I personally believe that he/she won’t live long or will have a pretty bad life. Maybe that’s cause I know too many that are going through shit cause they’re mothers gave them up. And some people just leave their kids anywhere, so they starve.
Dan,
I was the most outraged when the prez vetoed the stem cell bill passed by the Senate….
The suffer of those with auto-immuned diseases goes on……people don’t think about that.
Candy
RYC: Do you like to read? If so, what do you read?
*snorts*
RYC: What are your favorite nonfiction books/subjects? I personally like world history, theology (of any sort), and psychology/sociology.
Hamster. It’s specific and identifiable, it’s not an amount that we can’t actually visualize.
the hamster. seriously, people, LAY OFF!!!!
It ought to be one about children. starvation is a real issue. and abortion? thats just sick. they’re KIDS, for crying out loud. . .
from my point of view, your hampster story caused far more outrage than anything ive seen on xanga before
ever.
kinda sad really, that people get that worked up over a hampster, but say nothing about these deaths…
The hamster.
You just can’t get over the hamster, now can you?
I don’t know what a “typical” person on Xanga is. There are different groups, I think. I’ve come across Xangans who are a heck of a lot more upset by abortions than by the hamster story (and, if your numbers are correct, I think it really underscores the desperate need for proper sex education in the U.S.).
From the way you keep bringing it up, I suspect you’re one of the people who gets more upset over the hamster. Or people’s reactions to it. I dunno… I’m tired of the hamster cruelty story at any rate.
SolarCloud has a good point, too. ^^
Apparantly the hamster. And apparently Dan is still upset about it.
Probably the war.
find one more statistic for me, and then compare it to those four. find the number of iraqi soldiers, enemy combatants, and other citizens that have been killed as a direct effect of the war in iraq, then put yourself in an iraqis shoes.
on average, an abortion takes enough money to basically feed a child regularly up until the point at which it could fend for itself, if you don’t go above the necessities.
the hampster’s killing could be considered euthanasia… how did the hampster know it was going to be killed? well… it probably didn’t, however, it knew it was going to die; what with the miscolored tumors and such… that couldn’t have been a good sign.
As my brother is a Marine, and roughly half of the people I really care about around my age are either in the Marines, Army, Navy or Air Force, it should be the Iraq deaths. But because we have been desensitized to those, its definitely the hamster. Just because that was an unnecessary and utterly cruel death. Mercy killing (with consent) I most definitely support, and if that hamster was as sick as his owner professed him to be, killing him was a mercy. But beating him to death against a cement block was cruel. Her “hubby” should have broken his poor little neck, because that would have given him the least amount of pain next to putting him to sleep. My daddy has had to kill a lot of really injured birds that way, and I always cry, but I would be a lot worse if he beat them to death on our patio. That woman was one sick puppy.
lol. touché. Then again, if someone bragged on xanga about killing people in Iraq or starving children to death, I’d be pretty pissed at them too.
Thank you for the loveletter. I’ll be sure to file that under “I give a crap”
The abortions…although I THINK that’s pretty stupid…damn. I mean, I don’t give a shit about those poor dead fetusus. For God’s sake. They don’t even KNOW they are ALIVE, so what’s so TERRIBLE about killing them? They really don’t mind.
RYC: Philosphy amuses me.
It’s so pointless but so interesting at the same time.
Mine is:
44,070 (Iraqi civilian body count since the war began)
I’m outraged by this perpetually growing number every day.
Aparently that last number is quite an outrage though. I think it’s funny that people are getting so bent out of shape over the hampster thing. It’s your site – post away, good friend – and feel free to beat a dead horse..er, hampster.
this hamster thing has got you all in a kink.
My previous comment was directed at Anna…who seems to have a problem with me because I fail to see how a rodent is worth the life of a child…that or because I have a penis. I can’t really tell.
It’s all population control. Man, I can’t wait for the bird flu to hit the U.S. Put us all out of our misery.
I strongly disagree with Iraq…it’s an occupation now, not a liberation like it started. World hunger is a disastorous, horfiffic issue because we cannot snap our fingers and solve the problem overnight or with simple orders. Iraq is something that we caused, whereas we inversely cause world starvation. And not just us; the rest of the world. We are solely responsible for the state of Iraq as it stands now and although we liberated the peoples from the horrors of Hussien, we have given them over to Shi’ite radicals who have made the state a not much better place. But instead of seeking resolution with this and going to greater issues such as the world starvation; we clench our fists and “by God”, as we the “Christian” conservatives would have it, refuse to seek no other way. This “liberation” of Iraq has become no different than breaking into someone’s house and giving their child a birthday cake at gunpoint in a strait-jacket, and forcing him at gunpoint to eat it and ENJOY IT. Whereas there lies a starving child to the right of him who is given none. In my opinion, it’s somewhat like that. Not exactly, but somewhat. And nobody’s happy. The media certainly twists things in ways deviating from what they are. Still, what is going on over there, regardless of whatever the media has to say; is not good.
-John
I wholly agree with meaghanne12. I am far far far more outraged by the number of Iraq civilians that have met death’s hand by our fallacious doing.
maybe you shouldn’t dwell on the hamster incident any more. it just draws more attention to what previously happened.
i think it is the number of children starving everyday. everyone deserves the chance of survival, at least.
And I fail to see how threatening to torture murder another animal is worth a shit or a damn.
There was never a question of whether the life of a hamster was worth the life of a child. The point was about wanton (great word) and unnecessary CRUELTY. People who are cruel to an animal are more likely to be cruel to other people too.
Personally, I think Dan is being an ass by continuing to fan the flames of the whole hamster thing. Anyone with even a partial brain cell in their head has got to realize that what chicky-poo did to her fucking PET was inhumane at best and bordering on psycho at worst.
And your threatening to blow up an animal just because you CAN apparently, puts you a notch lower than her in the great ladder of morons, idiots, and fools. THAT is why I have a problem with you. Your teeny tiny (most likely) peeny is YOUR problem, not mine.
I’ll file you and your comments in my FUKU file.
On a lighter note, you and hamsters make me laugh.
I guess I gotta add one more thing about that number for abortion… do you REALLY care? I mean do you wake up every morning and say, “DAMN I wish there were 1,300,000 more unwated babies in this world?” I just made a long post about this on my xanga – so I won’t go on and on even more here…
sadly the Iraqi one.. personally, i care more about the Hamster then anything :^(
personally im outraged at the number of abortions.
but xanga seems to attract more of the politcal MORONS so i would have to guess the war in iraq
Well I wasn’t going to post on any of your hamster posts hoping you would finally get over this hamster obsession you have developed, but……
The others you listed are more important than a hamster’s death. (I wonder where you got your figures though????) However, if any person on Xanga posted a first hand account in detail of how they killed a soldier, how they starved a child or how they aborted their baby, then I can guarantee you there would be outrage and flaming going on.
I’ll be glad when you can finally let that hamster rest in peace. The poor little fella was already not feeling well and then to be offed in such a brutal manner by your friend; well, I am still flabbergasted over it all. And I am getting more and more flabbergasted over your continued hamster posts. You obviously are making a big joke over the suffering of an animal. I think it is all very strange.
For everyone who is so outraged over the whole hampster debacle, what about all the (sick) things American soldiers do to the Iraqis? Stop looking at the tiny details and start looking at the big picture.
“A thousand deaths is a statistic. One death is a tragedy.”
-Josef Stalin
I don’t remember the exact number but you get the point.
either the starvation or the abortion.
even though its very sad, the hamster thing amuses me… in a way
-Brooke <3
It’s funny that most of the people who are outraged because of the abortion issue rarely, if ever, offers to feed the children out there that are starving and who’ll continue to starve.
diffrent things for diffrent people I guess
I’d have to say hampster, but I think it’s just the wording, you know BRUTAL death thing… it’s always in the wording… honestly, you can make anything sound good or bad if you word it correctly…
I’d have to say hampster, but I think it’s just the wording, you know BRUTAL death thing… it’s always in the wording… honestly, you can make anything sound good or bad if you word it correctly…
I think it’s nothing short of appalling that people are actually choosing the hamster over the others. You’d rather see thousands of babies slaughtered, children starved, and American soldiers killed if a single hamster is allowed to avoid its demise?! Stupid hippies, the hamster is worthless, people are not.
the first
u better commet me
The Consequences of Roe v. Wade
47,282,923
Total Abortions since 1973
its just sick
1-makes me proud
2-makes me sad
3-makes me mad
4-grosses me out
the death of poor hammy =(
the anger from the war i iraq seems to has settled into a more subtle tone. The hampster ordeal seems to have brought up an outrage.
Evowookiee: Why are you such a bitter person? What happened to you to make you this way? It’s so sad…
As for Dan…let it go and move on! Or were you just being facetious?
gonna go with the hamster
YOU’RE THE ONE THAT KILLED MY HAMSTER!!! WHYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT DID Mr. Doodlepuff do TO YOU!!!!?!?!?!?!?!!!!?!?!
…You will pay Dan…….YOU WILL PAY!!!!!
Sadly enough, the hamster.
Is it really about numbers or is it about tragedy, sacrifice, preventable death … what is it?
Seems a bit jarring to lump it up like that. How many xangans would notice that they don’t fit on one package more like!!
Since I’ve noticed a lot of xangans to be more on the religious side, I’d say the abortion thing. People like to bring up how awful abortion is, etc. ‘Course, lots of these people don’t really give a flying fuck about people starving to death in other countries. They just care about masses of tissue “dying”.
Having grown up in a 3rd world country and knowing people who have quite literally starved to death, I’d say # 2. Unfortunately, most people wouldn’t because it doesn’t “affect” them. But apparantely abortion does. /sarcasm
The whole thing pisses me off.
Definitely the abortion issue. I know some people say that some of the women don’t have a choice and they have to have an abortion. But they really do have a choice, they can either have sex or not. Live with your actions people; if you don’t want a baby, don’t have sex!!. Be responsible. The way I see it, the only acceptable excuse for abortion is if delivery will seriously threaten the health of the mother and I know there aren’t 1.3 million cases of that very year.
The hamster was brutally killed by someone that should be our equal, a well-fed and educated xangan, so we can relate to the outrage. The war is done by soldiers and that is their job, that is not an outrage as wrong as the war is. The abortions I am sorry are fetuses that would be unloved and uncared for wastes of human souls if allowed to progress, and I am actually thankful, not outraged. And yes there is starvation in the world, there always has been, and yes I am saddened, but not outraged. Yes, you do well to mention the other injustices, but the hamster is the true outrage.
The hamster thing is getting old.
Of your readers, the abortions. Big obvious one.
I tend to think the general “population” of Xanga is too…careless to care over any death, really.
all of those things make think of one phrase: “thinning of the herd”…..
I suppose every person has their own oppinion. The hamster thing is like a rule you have about road kill. You run over it and don’t kill it find a way to put it out of its misery (it mainly being kangaroos). The hamster was in pain and probably at deaths door = put the poor thing out of its misery. *shrugs* A lot more people do more horrible things everyday. I don’t know why people insist on making a big deal out of the hamster.
It’s a tie between the hamster and the abortion. Personally, I’m pro-choice and pro-euthanization (I volunteer at an animal shelter, so don’t you DARE call me heartless. There is such a thing as mercy killing).
Total deaths of Americans in Iraq.
1.3 million abortion deaths in the US. I have never heard the 40K/day kids starving though.
Well, for me, it’s the abortions. But, for a few of the crazies that visit this site, it’s the hamster.
I’m a vegetarian, member of PETA, and it STILL makes me laugh. =D
the hampster….
how many of those numbers do we have direct control over? Now you understand…
I say abortion. In regards to the comment about the civilians killed in the Iraq war, since this person is placing importance on them, I wonder in what order of importance he places the more than half million people that Saddam Hussein murdered.
All of the numbers should be concerning….even the hampster…because they are all derived from evil…
Deities damn you, Dan, trying to draw parallels
between the wanton violence that surrounds us every day
and a dead hamster. Your friend who killed the animal is
a sick, sick bitch, and I hope her children are thrown
against a wall in retribution; you Christians are big on
retribution for its own sake, right?
Furthermore, I don’t see you up in arms about ANY issue,
you empty-headed old man, except those of unthinking,
unfeeling bits of fetal tissue. At least these people are
protesting death in SOME form. You oppose it only in intent
and mockery. You’re a ridiculous sham human being, Daniel.
i would hope that number two sparks outrage in the masses. one somewhat uninformed xanga-ite stated that “number two can’t be prevented by the actions of one person.” that is an ignorant statement in its very essence. my action/or inaction today will feed or starve a child. given the excessive nature of life in the us of a, each of us could stand to gather a bit of self efficacy and realize that we do matter tremendously to those children.
i stand by my belief that until we, as a country and as individual human beings, can protect, save, and nurture the lives of the “already born”, i don’t believe we have business placing excessive energy into abortion as a cause.
You forgot to mention the 250,000+ human beings that die each year from smoking.
I think the reason there was so much outrage over the hamster was because of the way you presented the story Daniel. Your tone conveyed a slightly uncharacteristic bit of sadism, perhaps your mask slipped briefly? You started off describing a dumb creature, the object of some woman’s affection as suffering some slow debilitating disease, then WHAM! it was executed without ceremony against the concrete slab. Naturally, the mild mannered sheep that flock here religiously were frightened by your graphic depiction of brutality…
It’s probably that blasted hamster that getting everyone’s shorts in a wad… in the scheme of things, one hamster is NOT that big of a deal, get over it people. Y’all want to get bent over something, there are far more important things.
the hamster would get the most reaction
but what should get the most reaction, no doubt is the starvation of children
but im pro-abortion(not pro-choice)
well and your numbers end up being like 14 million kids dieing from starvation per year
All those numbers should cause outrage.
The deaths of the Americans in Iraq: these good men and women who are sent to a warzone through a war based on lies. The number of children that starve everyday is a worldwide outrage that we should all be ashamed of and change. The number of abortions in the US is a mindboggling sum that we should also be ashamed of and change. But the hamster dying in such a terrible way was very bad too. Animals do get abused and die in large numbers as well, asnd that is also an outrage. All atrocities, deaths, violence could be curbed if people could change their behavior at the micro level. I’m not saying that woman did this with the intention of being cruel, but the action was cruel and the poor animal died in a horrible way. If the animal had to be put down, she might have done things in a slightly less violent manner.
However I agree that people are not always consistent in their reactions. Conservative Republicans might not think much of the war deaths, while pro-choice liberals overlook the number of abortion deaths. A much better attitude should be that all violent death, human or animal should be something we try to prevent both at the top and bottom levels.
Chathog was “kind” enough to leave me a reply to my brief comment, apparently based on his interpretation of what I was saying, so I guess I should be clear.
I was answering the question of which caused more outrage when I said hamster. When I said I missed all the fun I meant I’d not read any of this entire thing and realized when I did that I’d missed a lot of what’s going on.
Now, that said, I agree with those who feel the wanton violence in getting rid of the hamster was way over the top and unnecessary. If inded they thought they were doing the animal a favor putting it out of it’s misery, there surely are other kinder ways to go.
I also think, having read the situation in question, that the clandestine thing was cruel to the kid who owned the hamster in the first place. If a beloved pet must be put down, then the kid who loves the pet should be prepared as gently as possible. Thank God the kid didn’t have to see the way the animal died.
This is not to say there’s nothing wrong with starving kids or civilians senselessly bombed to death as “collateral damage” in a war that serves nothing but one man’s ego.
There’s a lot of crap and a lot of cruelty in the world. No one needs to add any more senseless cruelty to the mix.
I would have to say the hamster, which only serves to demonstrate a sorry lack of priorities. To me, it’s the aborted children that is the most outrageous. Just thinking about it makes me fall apart.
OK, I was putting a comment on this, and it went away and ate my comment and then came back…
Anyhow, what I said was more or less to the effect that it’s kind of pathetic of us to have Saddam kill and abuse thousands or millions of HIS OWN people, and then we whine about losing 2000.
THE IGNORANCE IS ASTOUNDING. THIS POST MADE THINK, THE COMMENTS MADE ME LAUGH.
Oh gosh. It seems that many Xangans feel the insatiable prick of rage when they hear about the hamster.
For me, at least, it would be that 40,000 children starved to death each day.
OMG! Not ham-ham!
What about the number of Iraqi deaths? eh? eh? No one seems to mention that!
Hamster, then Iraq, then starving Children, then abortions but that’s just me.
I agree that the description of the hamster’s death was overtly graphic, however, I would not waste time over an already dead hamster. It’s just ridiculous how fired up people get over it. Of course, I think part of the fuel has been from you Dan as well.
I personally am more concerned with the number of abortions and starving children. As someone said earlier, if this next generation continues to die or be aborted, there won’t be a next generation. Children can’t take care of themselves- we need to be their protectors, providers, and comforters.
the fourth one!
Is there a “typical” person on Xanga? Different people are outraged by different things, based on their life experience. I’m more appalled by the children starving to death than anything, but none of the four are wonderful things to ponder.
Actually, the number of preventable deaths bothers me more because few people realize that carelessness is a greater enemy than anybody had guessed.
Well I wasn’t going to post on any of your hamster posts hoping you would finally get over this hamster obsession you have developed, but……
The others you listed are more important than a hamster’s death. (I wonder where you got your figures though????) However, if any person on Xanga posted a first hand account in detail of how they killed a soldier, how they starved a child or how they aborted their baby, then I can guarantee you there would be outrage and flaming going on.
I’ll be glad when you can finally let that hamster rest in peace. The poor little fella was already not feeling well and then to be offed in such a brutal manner by your friend; well, I am still flabbergasted over it all. And I am getting more and more flabbergasted over your continued hamster posts. You obviously are making a big joke over the suffering of an animal. I think it is all very strange.
Posted 8/1/2006 at 1:09 AM by lead_mare
*applause*
Good job, lead_mare. Believe it or not, I agree with you 100%.
I think it is very disturbing. And I think the people who don’t GET IT and who act like it’s weird or stupid to be upset over a hamster’s brutal death are stupid and heartless.
Doesn’t it say somewhere in the Bible that God watches over the sparrows? Don’t you suppose he watches over hamsters too? What do you think GOD thinks of beating your little pet to death on a cement slab?
Some guy once said that any death diminishes us all. I think he was talking about other humans, but I think a cruel and brutal snuffing out of another life dimishes us all too.
Probably the war…. the starving children bothers me the most, but over all, probably the war.
By the way… I might mention that out of all of those, the ones willingly giving their lives are the soldiers. They knew what they were getting into and maybe they actually wanted to be over there. This is shocking thought for all of us who probably wouldn’t give our lives for our own families, but some people really do feel that way.
Hamster or death of Americans in Iraq seeing as a large portion of Xanga frequenters are American…
starving children
The war and the hamster.
I think it’s ridiculous, though. 2577 deaths in a WAR isn’t that bad. People dying is what happens in wars. That’s pretty much the entire point of war. To kill the other guys until they give up.
I’m not saying that I don’t care that all those people died, it’s still tragic, but it could be a lot worse, and it HAS BEEN a lot worse in the past. Yes, 2577 deaths are tragic, but we should count the blessing that it’s not more.
The hamster. War is absoloutely awful, but in some ways it’s iinevitable. Give a man a brain and he’ll make a gun. Give him another man and he’ll start shooting. I’m not exactly sure how I feel, because in the grand scope millions of fathers, sons, husbands, siblings and uncles are a bigger deal than a single hamster, but I guess I feel sorry for the hamster since they never had a good life at any point.
ohlord, this made me burst out laughing. =]
it should be abortions, because those deaths we CAN do something about.
Posted 7/31/2006 at 11:05 PM by angelheaven72
Um, we can do something about EACH of these death statistics.
I tend to hear the most about Iraq. That at least makes it onto the news occasionally. None of the other stats ever get talked about publicly.
Hamstercide
By the way… I might mention that out of all of those, the ones willingly giving their lives are the soldiers. They knew what they were getting into and maybe they actually wanted to be over there. This is shocking thought for all of us who probably wouldn’t give our lives for our own families, but some people really do feel that way.
Posted 8/1/2006 at 7:54 AM by crescendo_of_ambiguity
Actually many young people enlist in the army b/c that’s the only way they can py for their schooling. Or b/c that’s the only real option they see for their future. i’m willing to bet that many of the people who signed up for the military in the years before we entered Iraq were not counting on having to actually go to war.
Yes, 2000 deaths may seem a small toll for a war. However it is always necessary to consider the cause and reason for the war. If the reason for the war to begin with seems frivolous, then no number of deaths is justifyable.
Hampster is still between funny and gross and horrible… The way it was written made it sound more comical than it was…
Sadly is is probably the soldiers – I LOVE our troops, don’t get me wrong… but when you match that to the sheer massiveness of abortion, it is staggering…. 504 children for every soldier who dies… pretty big ratio.
And, good point on children starving… But what is the abortion rate for the entire world? It is probably pretty sickening too…
~Esquire
Hampsters… then Iraqis… then aborted babies… then starving children. I think these priorities are upside down but that’s just me
The hamster.
children starving is upsetting. the number is too large. it’s representing children, not unaware beings in utero. the hamster one is kind of sad, too, but it’s only 1. i hope it doesn’t happen again. shit, yeah. ooooo. those two, i guess. all of them. i don’t know.
Well I don’t know about anyone else, but for me, it is #1 and #2.
no i mean 2 and 3
Starving children
Boy Anna. I think I should point out that “I’m rubber you’re glue…”
seriously, do you think that you can upset me by ‘insulting’ my manhood? This is an egregious (good word) error on your part. Tell me Anna darling: Have you ever crushed a spider? Stepped on a bug? Eaten meat? Have you ever set out mouse traps? Sprayed pesticide or EATEN any food that pesticide has been used on? Have you eaten any food at all?
Because you are accessory to MURDER then. Farmers kill animals all the time. Bugs who eat their crops, moles who dig up seeds. Birds, coyotes, turtles, badgers….all sorts of animals. And is it nice and ‘happy’ killing? NO- they get shot, ran over, electrocuted, poisoned, and torched. So why don’t you go back to that high tower called condescention (good word) that you live in and think about what you’ve done little missy!
The hamster, apparently.
Hanster seemed to cause the most rage.
want to know the best way to kill moles? pour gasoline down their holes and light it…boy that works great…though it messes up the soil. It’s best to use a propane blowtorch.
well outburst about the hamster on xanga is now a big factor. but i’d say the one that effects us the most right now is the war.
It definately should be the starving children because it’s such a huge number. I’d say the number killed in Iraq probably gets the most outrage though.
probably the war in Iraq… but for me its abortion….
of course with all that we have in america alone, we could do a lot to help starving children….
its just too bad tht everyone has to drive a pimped out escalade or navigator or spend thousands on a car just so it will go over 160 mph… ho the hell fast do u need your car to be…. and video games….
i am reminded of the guy in the holocaust… can’t remember hs nam, but he gave so many of his personal belongings to aquire jews to work in his factory, where they were well treated and able to get smuggled out of europe… he gave almost everything and in the end… all he could say is he might have saved one more…. that was it…. he could have given more… why cant we all be like that…. give a little more…
humanity kinda sucks… so does greed…
from a typical person, the deaths from the war. either that or starvation, but people are so caught up in the war and how evil it is, that it seems the negatives that have come from it is all everyone’s focused on, rather than how much has changed for the better, and what’s to come in the future.
although for me, it’s the abortions.
I don’t really know about the “typical person” though if we’re talking about people that visit your site, easily the abortion number since you have so many overly religious people visit your site that are all, “OMGZ UR KILLING INNOCENT BABIES” without realizing that babies are still born every second and that the percent that gets aborted actually is helping our world not get over populated, so that more people don’t die of hunger.
As for me, I would say the number dead in the war.
> I imagine the hamster…………. :-/
Peace? but…..
The damn hamster apparently. No one has called George Bush brutal lately.
iamscoop–Schindler.
But it’s not so much the ability to “give away” stuff that feeds people. You have to first fix the social problems.
Does anyone realize that ‘starving children’ has NOTHING to do with money? but it has EVERYTHING to do with the states that they live in? The social order is corrupt, the Warlords (I’m thinking specifically of Africa here) that run the countries have little reguard for human life, they practice ethnic cleansing, and they enslave eachother…and guess what…THEY’RE ISLAMIC…hmmm
I think we have a problem here. It’s not the Western World that is destroying third world countries…it’s radical militant tap-dancing fundamentalist islam.
The damn hamster…I mean the story really didnt bug me. I was luaghing threw half of it. (Does that seems a little demented? ohh well)
Iraq or the hamster.
Well assuming the majority of Xangans are American, and many modern Americans are stupid liberals who just wish we could all just get along and avoid unfortunate but required wars, I’d say the soldiers killed in Iraq stats would bother people most. It should be abortions though.
-Jared
Misguided_Overlord
I totally agree with jared……im pro-choice and im guessing he isn’t but I believe everything thing he said about the stupid liberals!
The hamster one….cause people are WEIRD.
I’m more concerned about the billions of germs we kill every day with our disinfectants. THINK ABOUT THE GERMS!!!
Okay… I’m in a weird mood right now…
Since I didn’t answer the question in my original comment last night, I’m going to say that the typical Xangan is most outraged by the number of abortions. For me, though, I’d have to say the murder of our people across the sea is most upsetting to me.
hahahahah the hamster of course.. this is really funny, id give 3 props if i could
hamster
that stupid hamster, I’m sure… it’s the abortions that outrage the crap out of me… choice is BEFORE you lay down!
It should be the Total number of children that starve to death every day: 40,000. But most Americans only care about America so the 1st one.
Saddening, isn’t it?
Probably the hamster death
. It should be all the rest equally, in my opinion. I am for the war in Iraq, but it still makes me very upset that any of our soldiers have died in it – I’m just upset at the enemy who killed them instead of President Bush. I am very angry that 40,000 children die of starvation everyday, and there is much that can be done about that – if every American who could afford it gave a dollar a day to organizations like World Vision, then very few children would die of starvation. And I am very angry about abortion too, and of course something could be done about those deaths – self-righteuos people who sit around judging young girls for getting pregnant out of wedlock could take those girls in or adopt their babies, and abortions done for purely selfish reasons, at least, like rich women who have them because they don’t want to be bothered with more than two children, or weight gain or stretch marks, could be outlawed!
The hamster, probably.
I don’t know what it is about the other 3- maybe it’s because the numbers are so high, people are desensitized by it.
And what’s with the whole hamster thing lately, Dan?
the numbers don’t mean anything to people, they want the war to be over
war causes unceartinty and makes people worry about stuff that are really doing good, like the economy
what bothers me the most is everything but the war, if we were not in Iraq, the price of oil would be through the roof and there would be real economic problems
and by the way, let the hampster die, it was its time, no matter what people say
Seriously though, I think most would be more upset by the hamster because we are desensitized to some extent over the staggering numbers involved with the other deaths. One death… a tragedy. A thousand deaths… a statistic.
the hampster. sadly. people shouldnt worry so much about an already dying hampster with tumors all over when all that other crap is happening around the world.
Outrage over something dying is the most arrogant thing ever.
The hamster just hits a little closer… meaning… it is a situation that many of us could find ourselves in.
the hamster is the most outrageous.
who would beat a hamster?
i wouldnt beat a hamster!
but i do expect people to die in war and i do expect abortions because things happen. and i do expect people to die of starvation because our world is overpopulated.
but i do not expect someone to beat a hamster on a cement block, therefore, it is the most outrageous.
.. i made a big deal of that.
sorry.
That’s a lotta children. What is the age limit for ‘child’ like 25 years or something?
I know nothing of the typical person on xanga. Just guessing, I’d say the starving children, but that could just be because that’s the thing that I am most outraged at.
My guess is that you are trying to get people to see “the big picture” about the hamster situation by making it into a statistic thing. But I think the hamster discussion would be dead by now if you hadn’t kept bringing it up. Just because worse things have happened in the world doesn’t mean someone is wrong to be upset about something bad happening. That might be “logical,” but it is unrealistic to expect people to have the bigger picture in mind.
first and secomd
I think that the hamster thing is hilarious, lol. I laughed my ass off when I read that post. I mean yeah, I suppose it’s mean, but it’s not that bad. I mean god damnit, people, its a god damn hampster, lol. But for me, I would probably say that the starving kids outrages me the most because we can’t really do anything about the war happening, and if you think about it, if all those people didn’t get abortions every year, the U.S. would be overpopulated. And I bet that half of those people who got abortions are teenage girls who wouldn’t be able to take care of a child properly even if they were paid to. But yes, we can do something to help those 40,000 starving children. We can use the money that we waste every day on useless things like fireworks, candy, even electricity. Because if you really think about it, if everybody in the U.S. gave up all those things and sent money to those starving kids, that would help A LOT.
-KrIsTiN-
I’m tied with Abortion and Children Starving.
All of them are horrible, but abortion is my pick.
probably the soldiers for most people though they wont admit it. for me it is abortions though. thats so sad to think about all the poor innocent babies killed everyday.
ahahaa
is that a rhetorical question? people, it was just a hamster, get over it. thanks for putting things into perspective, dan.
Probably the deaths of Americans in Iraq or the beaten hampster..
number of abortions and starving children
for all you people talking about how sad the hamster thing was, you would of done the same if you saw what pain and agony he was going through. Do you know what pain he went through when he was hitting the wall vs. suffering? No i didn’t think so.
All three. And, please may I correct ou. I’m sure that there have been more than one hamsters brutaly beaten to death on a cement block of sorts. Not to be cruel or anything. Just saying. ASlso, please lte me spreas my message.
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I think the Hamster would have caused the most outrage but only because it’s so personal now (with the whole hamster killing story, and a follow up post about the owner of the hamster shutting down her site). If you provided a personal story about a soldier’s death, a woman who had an abortion, or child starving to death I’m sure the it’ll be different. I also realize that your trying to get a point through here but alot of people are getting pissed and annoyed. . . I think it’s time to let this thing pass.
The whole abortion thing is so complicated and it’s not all about ‘omg you’re killing babies’. Alot of you are saying that people should take responsibility and face thier consequences, and to think before having sex. What about girls who were raped? Do you really want a 12 or 13 year old giving birth to a baby? Situations like this do exist!! There are alot of things to consider before you can take sides on abortion and simply saying ‘omg you’re killing babies’ without considering them is silly. Open your eyes and see things from a different perspective. I used to be against it, then I was for it, and now I’m just not too sure anymore.
From the list I think children starving outrages me the most. Like some of your stated, we can’t really solve the problem by just giving and that really sucks. Arrrg!!!!!
If you’re really concerned about something then research and read up on it. If what you’re reading is opposite to what you believe don’t throw it a side and say ‘blah it’s all wrong’. Read it! You can agree or disagree but don’t be ignorant!
Unfortunately the fourth even though the first two seem more significant.
Every single one.
Typical person on Xanga… I’d say the last one. Regrettably.
Okay. I’m getting pissed about this pro-life shit, so I’m just going to say this.
We don’t disagree as much as it seems. I am not a terrible person who doesn’t care about the lives of cute little babies. The only difference between us is how we think the problem should be solved. I am not pro-abortion; I just don’t think that a law will solve the problem. In fact, I know a law won’t solve the problem, and so do you. Look at underage people drinking alcohol, look at drug use, look at Prohibition in the 20s and 30s. It doesn’t work. It never did work, and it’s not going to work. Before Roe v. Wade, abortions were performed by non-certified doctors, endangering the lives of women who probably only did it because they would be shunned by their families and society if anyone knew they were pregnant out of wedlock. Outlawing abortion will cause more harm than good, because it will not stop anything.
By the way, you purposely chose the statistics you did so that the abortion one would the highest. 3,931,200 people die a year from AIDS in Africa, that’s one person every 8 seconds. You can make statistics say anything you want.
since you posted about the hampster earlier, i’m sure it was that one. but it does seem illogical when you look at the other numbers.
the war that has killed many innocent people for made up reasons should be the most disturbing.
Well it should probably be the americans in iraq, abortions, or the starving children…. but based on the comments from the hampster post yesterday, apparently that causes the most outrage.
the war of course. no one think’s twice about abortion or starving children those are just facts of life.
It’s hilarious that some people don’t realize this is a rhetorical question.
Reading through the comments to get a better feel of what everyone thinks, I’ve found one that mentioned that 40,000 children starving to death everyday only made them sad, while the abortions made them mad. While I could go on and on saying stuff that has already been beaten to death considering abortions, I’m ashamed to see that living a life full of nothing, because that’s what starvation is, nothing, one of the most cruel way to die, is only worth saying, “How sad.” While with abortions, the kid hasn’t been born yet.
Saying how sad something is doesn’t create any action. It’s just a word, anyways. To answer the question, I think abortions cause the most outrage, followed by the War and now because of xanga, the hampster. But I, for one am outraged by hearing stories about children dying from starvation. We can make a difference if only people cared enough to put forth the effort. Words mean nothing if action is not taken with it.
Myssie
3
the abortions.
I think that the hamster didn’t do anything wrong. Also, alls fair in war. But, I beleive the starving children deserve the most publicity
id go for the children who are starving to death.
one and three i notice a bit… as for that last one, this is the first i’ve heard of it.
Ugh, the first one. Even though it should be the kids/babies.
Definitely number 4.
Because the three before it, while equally or more cruel, are protected by a buffer of social enigma: they’re politicized issues smothered with morality arguments (or for #2, the “that’s just the way it is, and must be.” argument). Whereas number 4, is just an unmitigated, inexcusable act of cruelty. That’s why it is more culturally appropriate to find horrifying.
P.S. – I seriously doubt that the third statistic is accurate. I would check where you received that statistic.
The starving children.
Iraq deaths, because people are stupid.
1.) The hamster.
2.) The war.
3.) Abortion.
4.) Well…is it fair to put the starving children on here since I don’t know of a single post ever written about it?
for me its the second and third
aww…poor hampster…lol I shouldn’t be laughing…I feel evil
no I realy do feel evil
I mean I’d never do that to a hampster…to fuzzy and cute!
but I guess it’s funny on paper…
or in cartoon…unless its too graphic…but that depends if I’m in the mood for it or not…
but the one that makes me mad is the starvation
then the abortion
~Mayisha
40,000 is just in the US!
realy…I think we should take care of our own first…
I disagree with the statistics on hamsters – I think it is much much higher.
Estimated average number of abortions a year in the US: 1,300,000
first and second, I support Abortion, so, yeah. Though a poor little hampster does make me a bit sad.
3rd…on the real..
#3
Brutal death of a hamster beaten against cement block b/c most of us try not to think of the war or anything going wrong in our country
or other countries
we try to see only the positive things in our life and block out the negative
we mostly turn our backs on anything that goes wrong and forget about it untill sumone brings it up again
starving children?
The children who starve to death T^T
Total number of Americans that die in car crashes every year: 46,000.
Perhaps time to let this one go already??
Abortion should, definitley.
- Cat
well i would hope abortions….but just to think of the ones done illegally we dont know about….
other then that the little children that starve to death…they are so young and never get to experience life..
the hamster
The number of abortions. That infuriates me.
[ariana]
Children. The money for the war could feed them.
HAHA YES I LOVE YOU DAN!
lol gothichippies…that is so true.
But I am serious reading posts about…the WAR?
to u guys realize that 1,300,000 is over 504 TIMES 2,577 young men who actually VOLUNTEERED to go and shoot people??
1,300,000 a year, that is. 2,600,000 in two 5,200,000 in four.
Over 5 million in four years. Absolutely no chance at life, not even to see the inside of a hospital room. Just a little ripping apart as he/she is pulled out. And then a little dumpster-action.
Choice? If your pro-choice, why don’t give a baby a choice to live-maybe even a chance could help.
Sick, is what that is. You’ve got a choice not to have unprotected sex. There’s your choice.
The children who starve to death each day outrages me a lot. It’s insane that that many children can die each day from something preventable.
the hamster.
GRRRRRRRR
um well i meant the hamster gets the most outrage. AND IT SHOULDNT…
haha i felt like people´d think im outraged at the hamster…
probably abortions. meh, i keep thinking of the number of iraqi deaths compared to those of american soldiers though
starving children.
margaret peterson haddix writes a series about ‘shadow children’(third children who are outlawed because of famines). some have plenty to eat while others starve. its not fair. if we could learn to distribute properly, no one would starve
I hope the children would concern the people the most. but im afriad the hamster came close. What a strange world we live in.
probably the hamster!!
I think more people would be outraged by the abortions, even though it’s still a fetus, we have been programmed to think life begins at conception. I think people should just accept it’s a woman choice.
I personally am upset with the starving children. I guess it doesn’t occur to some people that if women weren’t allowed to have abortions, that starving children number would go up.
I am so tired of people referring to a fetus as a baby especially if it’s just in the early months, when it couldn’t live outside of the womb. It’s called tapping into our “emotional” side and using terms like “pro-life” because the opposite would be “pro-death”. Even the Bible doesn’t say that life begins at zygote, but rather at “quickening”, which is kicking. But whatever, I’m just a crackpot bleeding heart liberal who observes the country as it goes into a downhill conservative spiral.
I like your site and how you manage to get so much feedback. Clearly, older bloggers know how to express ideas clearly and interestingly.
wow, i so didn’t mean to reiterate clearly twice in that sentence. oh well.
Does number of hours lost at work while answering your questions count?
all of them?
too many abortions wow
First one, I think.
All of the above are so sad!!! But the hampster one really does paint a grusome, disturbing picture in your mind. The immediate reaction to a cute, fuzzy animal being hurt is one of deep horror, shock, anger, and tears. Then again, maybe the hampster one has such a strong effect, because it’s the most graphic and the easiest to grasp. I think, maybe, it’s like, I started caring for the hampster as soon as it was mentioned. As far as enraging? I guess those who died from abortion is the most enraging, because the death toll is so high, horrible, and unnecessary for babies. I feel like people really shouldn’t be dying from any of these things for the following reasons: there shouldn’t be any terrorists or evil dictators telling us that we can’t see if they have weapons of mass destruction, no one should be pregnant if they don’t intend to be, people shouldn’t starve, hampsters can only die peacefully in their sleep after living a very long and happy life (and that’s the only way they ever die, because that’s just how it is!!), and people just shouldn’t do these things to eachother.