repulsed and disgusted

so, one of the basic rules in life is - don't judge anyone else if you can help it. if you do, then try and temper your judgement with reality :P

someone i know has a picture on her facebook account of a rodent stuck on one of those sticky rat traps. there are two pictures, one of the poor rat when it initially got trapped and one that was taken after it had struggled some and was obviously distressed. it had poo-ed in the second picture and the caption my aquaintance had put up was really insensitive and crass, imho!

i've had one friend who was seriously into seeing weird things - like the beheadings that the various terrorists used to broadcast on their websites or watching someone take a dump - who used to wonder why women complained about being raped and weren't happy that they were "getting some". i judge this friend of mine, i judge him to have a slightly sick taste. ofcourse i support his right to indulge in whatever he pleases, so long as he causes no harm to any other soul but it really disturbs me that schadenfreude can be taken to such extents by someone who comes across as vaguely normal.

the dude who shot the girls in amish country - his wife said that he was normal when he left their home that morning! she was his wife of many years, they have children together!! it is shocking just how capable we are of deceiving our loved ones. i've done it, i used to abuse my ability to manipulate and connive. but my family taught me that its wrong to do it, even though, a lot of the times we don't really follow that principle in practice. i try my best to not manipulate. i think honesty is very, very important - manipulation veers dangerously close to using people and exploiting them.

what's the point of my rant? i am repulsed by the pictures and the captions that my aquaintance has published. i am repulsed by the subterfuge that people indulge in life - having had to face some on a daily basis. i am disgusted by people's habit of playing people - mind games are fun when people are on an equal footing, and both are in the know - if it is a one sided mind game, then i think its not called a game, its called being a thorough biatch!