I wonder if torturing animals is an early warning sign for anything.

[theweaselking]

Cat-killer arrested, taken to jail, but cuts plea bargain so that he can pursue his dream of joining the military and doing it to humans instead.

Bonus points: US Military happily makes exceptions, re-arranges schedules so that he can join up.

Comments

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Very well. *If* the individual exhibiting antisocial personality disorder does exhibit the characteristic "lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another," then is and remains my understanding that they don't like either cats or people.

(There may be an argument for taking the definitions of Dr. Hare over the definitions from the DSM-IV. However, I trust you will understand if I prefer to look into that myself, rather than merely adopting the preferred view of someone who drops into a conversation and tosses around vicious insults in the hopes of making a point. Thank you for bringing the alternate viewpoint to my attention.)

[wiseacre.livejournal.com]

So it seems that I was being too generours when I gave you the benefit of the doubt and assumed you actually cared about the content of my comment. I assumed you weren't deliberately being obtuse but obviously I was wrong. Anyone who cares more about animals than people is mentally defective. Anyone who defends someone who would wish torture and mutilation upon another person is also menatally defective.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You're surprisingly stupid.

In this case, the meaning of the word you were (mis)using is entire the point of this whole thread tangent, and she was neither caring more about animals than people nor defending someone who does.

She *did* care about the content of your comment - specifically, she questioning your use of the clinical term "psychopath", as well as correcting your spelling of it. The misspelling, of course, being another sign that you really probably didn't know what you were talking about. So she pointed out that you were using the wrong word, you argued your reason why it might be the right word, she said she'd look into that, and you called her stupid.

So. Right about now, the correct course of action is for you to reread your comments very carefully, realise that you're arguing against a statement that was never made, and apologise to torrain for being so stupid.

Are you going to do that?

[wiseacre.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I rather not.

Whatever amusement value I thought I'd find after viewing your posts on a friend's friends page has certainly waned. I certainly used the term correctly in any but the most clinical sense and, arguably, even then. To play semantic games--and to suggest that a simple misspelling is germaine to discussing the primary point, is silly. If that's what passes for fun amongst your friends, I've grown weary of playing.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

And next time, remember: calling your host's wife "mentally defective" because you're not smart enough to understand a semantic disagreement? That's not very bright at all.

[wiseacre.livejournal.com]

I posted a provocative response to a provoctative comment and a third-party jumped in and twice wanted to squabble about the semantics and not the message. I wasn't trying to piss all over your furniture. I've already said this ain't my cup of tea and I'll stay out of it so there's no need to hiss and spit.