Stop the hate

We are here to make the world a better place to protect animals, the environment, and human rights. So why is it that so often the comments on a petition are violent threats towards people. They are usually once an animal has been hurt or killed or a person hurt but what message are we sending when asking that the same thing be done to them. There are many ways of getting our points across besides becoming the monsters we are trying to stop. 

For hate is never conquered by hate only love can conquer hate.

Stop the hate.

"Update " 

Thoughts become words,words become actions,actions become character, character becomes destiny. Choose your words and thoughts carefully. 

Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, Hitler, and Stalin. They all changed the world some through love some through hate. All were doing what they felt was right but the driving motivation set the course for the final destinations.

There are some people who seem confused on this I am not "Attacking" good people I am trying to let people know there are more constructive ways of stating things than just attacking people viciously and the people who read the petition are usually not the person who eledgedly did the thing that causes the frustration as much as people signing or in some cases legal officials. I was reading a petition where a mentally challenged adult killed a kitten and the first comment I read was that" he should be dragged out into the street and raped in public.". Now how is something like that appropriate, beneficial, or even acceptable. Those are not things I want next to my name when I sign a petition or things I would want to hand over to the people I am trying to petition. Now I know there are bad people out there doing horrible things that's why our comments should not confuse the readers as to who is who.

I am far from perfect, I could not even count my faults. This is something I am working on and feel many can benefit from. It is also a good way for us to affirm our efforts together. 

As for the idea that speech without rage and vulgarity will not have any effect on the monsters who cause these atrocities, well negativity is not a new technique and it is what has made them who they are now and only fuels there efforts.

For those of you this has helped, I am very glad and thank you for all your kind feedback.  For those this has upset I don't understand why it would have.

Also here is one to stop overly graphic content in petitions. Over exposure to graphic images will only desensitize us and make us callous.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/767/443/878/stop-posting-graphic-images/

Update #19 years ago
Thank you all for signing apparently some people felt I was attacking good people so I added an update to clear it up but this has a 500 character limit so I just added it to the petition. Please feel free to forward this and share with your friends and use it to find new ones you can tell quickly there are good people here who care ;)
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