22 Dec 2014, 7:06 pm
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23 Dec 2014, 12:13 am
Did you miss out the apostrophe "s" and the word "for"?
As in "apart from eating human's for food".
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23 Dec 2014, 12:54 am
23 Dec 2014, 1:56 am
Mentally my aspie logic would kick in. If reading about someone feeling so depressed they were contemplating suicide, internally I would think "go for it, there are seven billion people on the planet, lots more like you so won't miss one". When I see ads for World Vision on the box showing starving kids in Africa, my thoughts run to "feed them this year so they can starve next year - that's an exercise in futility".
When, on another forum, they were discussing the Middle East, I suggested they build a 20ft high barbed wire fence around the whole area and leave them to fight it out amongst themselves. Then when the fighting had died down, the West should go in finish off the rest as they were most likely to have committed war crimes in order to win. And my favoured form of government anywhere would be a benign dictatorship modified by assassination.
Heartless me ! ! ! No way, I'm just a logical aspie.
I don't know why you believe that your opinion(s) on these matters are more logical than any others, they are just that, your opinions.
I also have an opinion about the world population, but I don't wish anyone's death, I just wish people wouldn't have so many children because there is really a point where there will be too many humans on this planet.
And with your solution about the Middle-East you are simply throwing everyone away, good and bad alike, regardless of their individual actions, and there is nothing "logical" about that (i.e. lack of empathy/sympathy doesn't equal "logical"). I suggest watching the movie Lone Survivor (watch it until the end, including the credits), maybe you will realise that while there is extremists there who have no respect for human life (kind of like your solution), there is also great people who not only respect others, but are willing to give their life to help someone.
23 Dec 2014, 2:15 am
And to NiceCupOfTea. Sorry I didn't read all the posts yet, but wanted to post a reply. I also like dogs, but eventho I can bond with most of them (in general it is easier for me to bond with animals, especially dogs and cats, than humans), I don't bond equally with all of them, it depends on the dog too. Like at some point I had 2 Irish setters (I adopted them together, thinking this way they would never be bored), but they were so hyper I never really got to bond with them (which is uncommon for me) and I gave them for adoption (2 couples adopted them). I am telling you this just so you know just because you didn't bond with that one, doesn't mean you can't bond with any. On the other hand, when my 2 latest dogs died both times I felt almost like I was going to die because I was so sad. Recently we adopted an adult Jack Russell (from a person who had to give him for adoption), and he is a bundle of joy and we bonded very quickly, he is always with me, follows me around all the time, etc (right now he is sleeping under my desk lol).
I don't know whether you want to adopt a puppy or if you would be ok with an adult dog, but if so you could go to an animal shelter and see which ones come to you, and how you feel about each one, maybe you will know right away which one you would bond with. Or of course you could get a puppy, which is nice too, but you have to house train them of course.
Either way, I wish you good luck 
23 Dec 2014, 6:04 am
