adolescents fun these days
So surfing the usual news sites like I do at work when I come across this:
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=&art_id=vn20060721014621141C728125
What can I say – I’m disgusted…completely. Hell, I turned down a library post as a leading pharmaceuticals company because they experimented on animals. To be honest I’ve always been a bit sensitive about that sort of thing.
Man is a creature capable of amazing acts of compassion, especially when not wanting anything in return – it’s good to do the right thing sometimes, no matter what the cost. On the other hand man is also capable to committing acts of spine chilling ruthlessness. The sad thing is we’re all have the capability to go either way within us. I, for one, should know – there is a reason I never lose my temper any more. Not that I am a violent person.
But that is a story for another time…in the very distant future.
I was pondering what would be a suitable punishment – the first thing that springs to mind: spray them with an aerosol and set them alight…let them run around for a while before they roll around and put themselves out. That might work…a case of tit for tat. Might even deter their friends who thought it would be a fun idea.
The problem I can foresee is the defence’s argument – it was their mouse and they could do with it as they wished – like any other property/items they might have bought before. They just have to prove that they don’t see animals as most people tend to see them and they’re only property for the owners to do with them as they will. This can go around in circles for a while.
My concern is this: if they’re quite capable of inflicting this kind of harm on a small defenceless creature (okay defenceless relative to a human) what else are they capable in the long run? While it might be seen as harmless fun to themselves, and a phase that specialists might say they will outgrown, at best I’d say sadism is a likely option and at worst psychopathic behaviour. Sociopath is out as that would have been one person doing it on his or her own.
Yes I know I’m over reacting…and it’s only over in South Africa. But I look around here and wonder how society has gone and fucked itself up.
But that comes down to consequences and how we’ve become very good at avoiding them OR even stalling them long enough that they’re of no consequence any more.
And that will be a diatribe for another time I suppose.
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=&art_id=vn20060721014621141C728125
What can I say – I’m disgusted…completely. Hell, I turned down a library post as a leading pharmaceuticals company because they experimented on animals. To be honest I’ve always been a bit sensitive about that sort of thing.
Man is a creature capable of amazing acts of compassion, especially when not wanting anything in return – it’s good to do the right thing sometimes, no matter what the cost. On the other hand man is also capable to committing acts of spine chilling ruthlessness. The sad thing is we’re all have the capability to go either way within us. I, for one, should know – there is a reason I never lose my temper any more. Not that I am a violent person.
But that is a story for another time…in the very distant future.
I was pondering what would be a suitable punishment – the first thing that springs to mind: spray them with an aerosol and set them alight…let them run around for a while before they roll around and put themselves out. That might work…a case of tit for tat. Might even deter their friends who thought it would be a fun idea.
The problem I can foresee is the defence’s argument – it was their mouse and they could do with it as they wished – like any other property/items they might have bought before. They just have to prove that they don’t see animals as most people tend to see them and they’re only property for the owners to do with them as they will. This can go around in circles for a while.
My concern is this: if they’re quite capable of inflicting this kind of harm on a small defenceless creature (okay defenceless relative to a human) what else are they capable in the long run? While it might be seen as harmless fun to themselves, and a phase that specialists might say they will outgrown, at best I’d say sadism is a likely option and at worst psychopathic behaviour. Sociopath is out as that would have been one person doing it on his or her own.
Yes I know I’m over reacting…and it’s only over in South Africa. But I look around here and wonder how society has gone and fucked itself up.
But that comes down to consequences and how we’ve become very good at avoiding them OR even stalling them long enough that they’re of no consequence any more.
And that will be a diatribe for another time I suppose.
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