Reply #29: I don't know... [View All]

[AG78]

if you can ask the question like that. This is one sample for one family. Maybe it's a nationwide thing, maybe not. Maybe in the next town, people have sent in money to help yet another family that has had to go through something similar.

It's rather simplistic; do we value children or not?

I'm not saying either situation is any worse than the other. Any adult that would hit a child that way(or any way really) isn't worth their life. Any person who would burn an animal isn't either.

But in looking at the two situations, the child was, I assume, in his home. The dogs were stolen from a shelter. That is a different situation. One was more private, the other more public. Maybe that makes a difference.

And we used to have, and the world over continues to have, child labor for example. So it's not an American thing. There are many more examples of not caring about animals or children as well.

But the obvious answer is that we all need to do more protection of both children and animals. That's the obvious answer, the best answer, and really the only answer that can answer the question.