[Burkeman1]

Inflicting pain on anyone and taking pleasure in it is sadistic. Now that doesn't mean sadism is always bad. After getting your company half annihilated at Iwo Jima and then taking pleasure in killing Japanese soldiers is understandable and even Human. But to laugh and chuckle at some dopey woman protestor who got whoppled in the chin and is in pain- is a little over the top in my view. They are not worth the emotional effort "sadism" requires and if you feel it so easily then- I would try to find some inner peace.

[P-Marlowe]

You're right, it isn't funny to see that little welt on her face. It would have been much funnier if it had put out an eye.

[Ben Bolt]

Have you thought this post out to some degree after you wrote it Burke ?

[Petruchio]

But to laugh and chuckle at some dopey woman protestor who got whoppled in the chin and is in pain- is a little over the top in my view.

The stupid bitch deserved more than a little welt on the chin. Attemppting to block needed supplies from getting to our troops is aiding and abeting the enemy. She deserves to be shot on sight as an enemy agent.

[SENTINEL]

I do not delight in the shedding of blood, but do delight in boxing. We marines were always whacking each other and getting little bumps and bruises like the one pictured above. Does this make me a sadist ?

Withholding the justified urge to thump peace protesters requires much more emotional effort for me than not. I believe that freedom is greater than peace, and only feel inner peace when defending freedom to the moral limit. It is not wrong to rejoice when the long guilty are finally punished. If you don't have the stomache for it, don't look.