Brain Fertilizer

I don't know why, but I react badly to stories like this.

Maybe it's the implication that what is done to this one singular example happens to every single person of faith...which is plainly not true.

Maybe it's the propaganda angle, in which the story really gets pushed if they have a nice "before" picture of a pretty, smiling girl.

I hear rumors that in the United States, in some states, if you are convicted of child molestation, the guards often leave the door to your cell open, and you receive some "justice" far beyond what the judge intended in his sentence. Is that government brutality?

If the sign clearly states: don't spit on the sidewalk, and you deliberately walk up and spit on the policman standing right next to the sign, how much sympathy should I have?

Maybe that's not the case in this story. It's hard to tell without better independent verification. You can read my comments on the post to get a better idea of what I mean.

And yet, there are instances of human right abuses that I do get upset about. Here's a good example of things that make my blood boil:

When petitioners proceed to the various Petition Offices, they may have to run through a gauntlet of special agents from various localities. As they go through, they are threatened (sometimes via physical beatings) to disclose their places of origin and their cases. They may be arrested by the special agents from their localities and then extradited back to their home towns where they may be penalized for their activities. These acts of menace occur in the public under broad daylight.