Reply #: Looking down on others simply means placing yourself above them.

[Forkboy]

Thinking you're better than they are because of the stand you take, and thinking people who don't agree with you are "barbaric", "insane", "primitive", etc, when none of those people are anything of the sort. We're all guilty of it sometimes, and usually for the same reason, to make us feel good about ourselves. We can dress it up in the guise of wanting to be better people or wanting others to be better people, and sometimes that's even the case. But more often than not it's just a way to stroke our egos, and in those cases we're just kidding ourselves about the reasons. I feel that in your case here it's probably a mix, as I do think you mean well, but what people are feeling is very understandable, and as another poster pointed out above, society's revulsion, and indeed hatred, of such acts serves a vital purpose within our society.

When I was your age I almost murdered a man who had raped a friend's little sister. I was literally starting to torture him, breaking his fingers one by one (and knuckle by knuckle) while he was unconscious. I'd much rather see people vent and say malicious things then act on that anger and actually DO malicious things like I did, and that's all 99.99% of what you're reading is...venting in anger and disgust. Not only does the shared anger and revulsion remind society that this stuff is beyond the pale and can't ever be even remotely tolerated, it's just flat out cathartic. Holding the anger and disgust in on too many things starts to eat you alive. That's more dangerous to an individual, and potentially to society, than anything you're reading here in this thread.