Marine puppy toss incident is coping
Jason Locke - March 12th, 2008I have a question for the masses of the Internet: are you as hypocritical as you seem to be? A U.S. soldier, in uniform, throws a puppy off a cliff in a country marred by car bombings, executions and bloodshed of every sort, and you post his name, address, phone number and e-mail because he killed a puppy?
The video posted on YouTube and other sites has sparked outrage. It was a cruel act, but seriously, where were these Internet vigilantes when Abu Ghraib photos were released?
Where were you when the UN building in Baghdad was destroyed by a car bomb?
A man kills a dog on video and the whole of the Internet jumps on his case, but videos of people being gunned down in the streets doesn’t warrant a bat of the eyelashes.
Where’s the empathy? You all want this man to die over a dog. You post his home address all over the Internet. What he did was cruel and barbaric, but pretending it’s the most barbaric thing to come out of a war that has lasted five years is utterly ridiculous.
Human beings are killed by the bushel every day, most of them civilians who didn’t deserve it any more than that dog did.
Thankfully, this seems to not have made too much of an impact on the mainstream media, and I’d be even more annoyed if it had.
Posting personal information and opening this man, this human being, up for attack by drooling morons after serving in Iraq is stupidity on a massive scale. I have no doubt that some of the same people who decry this as the ultimate pillar of human barbarism are the same ones who supported the war in the first place.
Ask yourselves: are you surprised?
Guys and gals get sent to war.
Guys and gals see horrific acts of violence committed on a regular basis, sometimes against themselves.
Guys and gals find a way to cope.
Guys and gals do it through depravity and violence.
It’s freshmen psychology.
It’s not right, it certainly shouldn’t be acceptable, but it happens, and many of you fools would realize that if you took a moment to ask why he did what he did instead of using a knee-jerk reaction.
Let this guy be. If the Army wants to punish him, let them. It’s not the job of the outraged citizens to make someone’s life even more miserable after a miserable tour of duty in a miserable war in a miserable country.