"A big company can mutilate a successful strategy, " says John Stanton, marketing professor at St.

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If they're unlucky, they're made into soldiers, forced to kill or mutilate civilians and other children.

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When those in power mutilate truth, the welfare of the people is at risk.

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It's not OK to mutilate them in ways that make Islamic extremism look bad.

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Joseph Kony forces kids to kill their own parents and mutilate people's faces.

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There are other alternatives to somebody who is willing to rape and mutilate and murder in order to stay in power.

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The figures mutilate and torture each other in lovingly intimate detail, requiring the viewer to squint guiltily at each miniature atrocity.

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And their "owners" can legally beat them and rape them and genitally mutilate them and force them into marriages they object to.

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As a five-year-old in Somalia, she screamed in pain and shock when her grandmother tied her down and had a man with a knife mutilate her genitals.

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