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american_yerushalmi:
At the same time, unspeakable atrocities are being committed against human beings throughout the middle east by ISIS, etc., over a million Syrian civilians have been rendered homeless, not to mention kidnappings etc. by Boka Harum in Africa. The headline question here was is the outrage justified? Not if comes in place of indignation against crimes perpetrated against humans! If all we are hearing is the outrage for killing a lion, but not a peep about human suffering, well, it’s totally out of place. A classic example of misplaced priorities.
+1. This action may have been illegal and it may have been immoral, but it in no way warranted the fury it engendered. It would have been nice to see even a fraction of this vehemence be directed against the ISIS beheadings, Planned Parenthood selling pieces of babies, or any of the other truly reprehensible crimes against humanity that have taken place recently. Misplaced priorities, indeed.