Homo homini lupus

[muckefuck]

Why did I do this to myself? A discussion of another suicide linked to anti-gay bullying reminded me of a recent incident where a public suicide attempt resulted in bystanders chanting "Jump!" and filming it on their cellphones. A Google search failed to turn that up, but instead it led to a page on instances of the bystander effect which introduced me to yet more examples of human cruelty that I simply could've done without.

A few days ago I started reading Steve Szilagyi's Photographing fairies (based rather loosely on the historical events at Cottingley) and I've been racing through it. Today just before the shuttle arrived at the gate I came to the part where the narrator finds two young girls ripping the heads off fairies in order to spare them a crueler fate at the hands of their fellows. It's an image I haven't been able to shake all day.