(April 23, 2014 at 7:57 pm)Chad32 Wrote: What do you do when you read something that makes you feel wrong inside, and you need something to get it out of your head so you can return to the better mood you were in before you knew about it?I go on living. I'd read about that case a few years back. Crime Library has a brutally specific and detailed breakdown of the case; if that isn't the one you read, you probably won't want to. It also explains how pathetically lenient the punishment was for just about everyone involved. You are left wondering what would drive anyone to do such terrifying things to another person, or allow it to happen, as well as realizing the disturbing truth that such types of people can exist.
But we're built to carry on, and the human ability to get over such things (at least, if we have not experienced them personally, or been close to someone who did) is pretty remarkable. Keep living your life, it's the best way to appreciate what you have (and what others, sometimes, are tragically denied).
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
