Re: ...my positive energy to NY... :-( n/t
Yep, I agree with you 100 percent about how animals shouldn't be confused with the kind of human scum who did this. I think a lot of people just naturally tend to call human scum "animals", because of religious indoctrination from childhood telling people all the time that human beings are "higher" than the animals. Whereas human beings are really animals, too. I don't think that a lot of people mean any disrespect to non-human animals -- it's just a bad habit of an expression.
People just have to get used to using the term "human scum". I'm certainly used to using it. :)
-- Nanaea