Comments on: Why are we numb to human misery but not to an animal’s plight? http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/01/13/were-numb-to-human-misery-and-death-but-hypersensitive-to-animals-plight/ Blogging by a team of pet-care experts led by Dr. Marty Becker. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:39:02 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mercurial Georgia http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/01/13/were-numb-to-human-misery-and-death-but-hypersensitive-to-animals-plight/comment-page-1/#comment-105523 Mercurial Georgia Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:11:52 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/01/13/were-numb-to-human-misery-and-death-but-hypersensitive-to-animals-plight/#comment-105523 Just passing by, I came across this while googling for mole and "Uwe Werner" (so many people confused the officer on the scene with the man who got killed though), and I want to say I really like what you are saying in this post. I do feel bad for the man, but empathy is hard to maintain when he /kinda/ did it to himself, and it's so absurd that he lost his life over some garden pest. Just passing by, I came across this while googling for mole and “Uwe Werner” (so many people confused the officer on the scene with the man who got killed though), and I want to say I really like what you are saying in this post.

I do feel bad for the man, but empathy is hard to maintain when he /kinda/ did it to himself, and it’s so absurd that he lost his life over some garden pest.

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