I thought this was a political forum. No?
I did not anticipate that you or anyone else would see my post as reducing the beating of a child. It was not my intention to reduce the beating of a child, and I'd like to see someone post a quote where I have done that. My intention was to try to show FReepers what can happen when the mob mentality takes over. The media were the baiters in this scenario today, and many of my fellow FReepers sucked down their line as though it had no hook on it.
If the media have FReepers wagging every time they shake a stick, no wonder the sheeple out there are swayed.
Allow me to ping you over to any thread wherein the Islamic religion is being discussed. There will be fertile ground for you to apply your disdain for mob mentality there.