Ok, please express your opinion on how it is appropriate to punish a suicidal inmate with solitary confinement. I would really appreciate a different point of view than the idea that it is inhumane to punish someone for something like that—maybe I’m missing a whole new way of looking at things.

Empathy is a skill that must be practiced. It’s easy to feel empathy toward people we have much in common with—our shared experiences make that rather simple. It is much harder, but perhaps a truer definition of empathy, to be able to feel for people with whom we share very little. Empathy has little to do with…

Hmm...maybe so. Feel free to be concerned. Kids pick up dead things all the time, this isn’t my kid, no shits given here.

Haven’t several people, including at least two kids under 12, gotten bubonic plague from dead animals (pretty sure at least one was a squirrel) in the last few years? This seems like a stupid and dangerous thing to turn into a “aren’t kids the cutest” viral meme.

I have one that’s almost 3 and I am consistently amazed by how, even at this tender age, she seems to know exactly when I’ve reached the point where I’m ready to send discreet inquiries to every circus within 100 miles to see if they’d like a deal on a preschooler. She will then declare, “I love you so much!” Or…

Brylan... and my eyes instinctively glaze over...

Brantley makes me want to go on a shooting spree. Or anything that ends in ‘aden’.

BRYLAN

I have 3. The entertainment isn’t so much constant as it is well timed in fits and bursts to remind you that you love them and would regret abandoning them to be raised by wolves.

I brought home a dead bird from school in 4th grade and put it in my closet. Don’t ask why; I don’t know. I was terrified of my closet for months because the bird disappeared! I decided to bury the poor bird a few days later, but I couldn’t find it. I’m sure my mom threw it out....but we NEVER discussed it. And it’s…

“The closeted perv has never come out as gay”

Because he very well may not be; being a child predator /= gay. Abusive sex is about power, not identity.