http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2228614/Couple-starved-year-old-adopted-son-weighed-just-35lbs-alarm-door-wouldnt-steal-food.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

What the FUCK is wrong with people? Tell you what they ought to do, they need to do the same thing to those things that call themselves parents, let them starve away to half their weight and see how much they like it.

You're starting to depress me with all these sad stories. The ones that concern children especially tug at the heart strings!

I guess that evens out, because humanity depresses me, more and more every day you see stuff like this happening. Where the hell do people like this come from? Who moved the rock?

This story is just sick. I hope the other children are taken out of the home as well.

So sad.

I will never understand how any one could be so cruel to a child.

Suzi wrote:

I will never understand how any one could be so cruel to a child.

The how is easy, children can't fight back so they're an easy target, the real question is why.

Supernova wrote:

The how is easy, children can't fight back so they're an easy target, the real question is why.

Cruelty is cruelty. If someone is going to be cruel to any living thing they are not going to discriminate. Child, dog, cat or adult, anything they can torture or bully is fair game because there is no filter in their sick minds as to what they are torturing.

Minerva wrote:

Cruelty is cruelty. If someone is going to be cruel to any living thing they are not going to discriminate. Child, dog, cat or adult, anything they can torture or bully is fair game because there is no filter in their sick minds as to what they are torturing.

Actually there is. Most men who abuse their wives and girlfriends are not going to intentionally go looking for a fight with grown men because they're scared to hit men, somebody their own size, somebody who they KNOW is going to fight back. Some will but those are the genuine, 100% accept no substitutes psychopaths, whereas the former are more cowards than anything or they WOULD be indiscriminate in who they select to torture. And I suspect it's the same with animals and children, they CAN fight back to a certain degree but it's still easy to overpower them and after a certain amount of time and abuse they stop fighting back and just learn to live in constant terror and cowering obedience.

Supernova wrote:

I guess that evens out, because humanity depresses me, more and more every day you see stuff like this happening. Where the hell do people like this come from? Who moved the rock?

How does this even anything out?

Alan Smithee wrote:

How does this even anything out?

Misery loves company?

If you say so, Annie Wilkes

Alan Smithee wrote:

If you say so, Annie Wilkes

Supernova wrote:

Actually there is. Most men who abuse their wives and girlfriends are not going to intentionally go looking for a fight with grown men because they're scared to hit men, somebody their own size, somebody who they KNOW is going to fight back. Some will but those are the genuine, 100% accept no substitutes psychopaths, whereas the former are more cowards than anything or they WOULD be indiscriminate in who they select to torture. And I suspect it's the same with animals and children, they CAN fight back to a certain degree but it's still easy to overpower them and after a certain amount of time and abuse they stop fighting back and just learn to live in constant terror and cowering obedience.

That wasn't my point. The original question was "How can they do that do a child?" My response was it doesn't matter to them. Anything they can hurt they will hurt. The filter isn't about what can hurt them back when they are looking for something to hurt.

When they are considering their own skin, then they may filter out what can retaliate and so avoid it but when they are just looking to hurt something it makes no difference whether it is a kid or a cat or a mouse or a wife.

That's fucked up. Someone should starve them.