Immortal said:
And it really isn't over-sensitive to feel worse for women and children. A crime committed to a woman or a child is worse than a crime committed to an adult man. Since women and children are comparitively defenseless, harming them implies much more malice on the part of the criminal. Although it's a bit traditional to think this way, since a man is more physically able to defend himself, it's not as cruel to harm/kill him. Your bomb example doesn't make sense either. I'm desensitized to nukes in general; even if we compare an explosion to the killing of a single man, the latter image is still worse. I forget who it was, but someone said something like the death of a man is a tragedy, the death of a million, a statistic. Explains this well. In any case, it's not particularly because people detest the image of a child being harmed, although they do dislike it more than that of an adult man being harmed. |
I'm going to get slammed for this, but here goes...
There's a difference between killing in self defense and murdering someone in cold blood though. The latter is worse than rape simply because for rape victims there is at least a chance of recovery; a murder victim is gone forever.
And it's "not as cruel" to harm/kill a man? Nice little nugget of sexism there. Since some women are more capable of defending themselves than some men, in those cases would it then be "not as cruel" to harm/kill the woman?