I'd let the proper authorities deal with it.
Prob let his parents just get a fine? And him just a smack on the hand..yeah, what would be the justice in that?
Ha.
The point I was trying to make and which obviously went completely over your head, was that the video is evoking a disproportionate reaction as unnecessary cruelty and pain towards animals happens on a far larger scale all the time.
How can you compare this to each other anyways ? This cat wasn't killed, he was beat up 'for no reason', cows and pigs etc get killed so we can eat them, we hold them in massive farms for a reason.
To deliberately inflict pain on a creature completly unable to defend itself, for the purpose of causing harm, is not humane. It's not ethical, it's not moral. People who can happily commit these acts clearly do not understand the pain or fear they are inflicting, and should be made to so that they can comprehend the suffering they cause. It is the cotton-wool culture of "you can't spank children!" "no corporal punishment!" "no consequences for children at all!" that has caused the complete lack of respect that so many children now feel for life. Children kill their elders just for looking at them funny (this is based on real news articles so don't argue it, I'll dig out the sources if I have to, but I'm sure you've all heard of at least one such incident!), children take knives to school and stab their classmates, and their teachers. Children hurt animals.
Its happened before, of course it has. But it can't be denied that it's happening more now than in history.
What I'm essentially saying is that if your a meat eater and complaining about this then your a hypocrite because you have contributed towards thousands/millions of animals being 'needlessly' slaughtered.
What's the point? As long as he doesn't do it again. Smacking the kid around won't undo the experience for the cat.
What I'm essentially saying is that if your a meat eater and complaining about this then your a hypocrite because you have contributed towards thousands/millions of animals being 'needlessly' slaughtered which I believe is worse than the beating up of one cat, I understand that your actions are indirect but I believe they are still worse IMO, worse in terms of animal cruelty and worse in terms of damaging our environment.
I know people won't like my stance on this but that's what I believe.
thousands/millions of animals being 'needlessly' slaughtered
Slaughtered humanely, vs beaten inhumanely. there's that element of ethics you're disregarding so that you can sit on your soapbox.
What I'm essentially saying is that if your a meat eater and complaining about this then your a hypocrite because you have contributed towards thousands/millions of animals being 'needlessly' slaughtered which I believe is worse than the beating up of one cat, I understand that your actions are indirect but I believe they are still worse IMO, worse in terms of animal cruelty and worse in terms of damaging our environment.
I know people won't like my stance on this but that's what I believe.
What's the point? As long as he doesn't do it again. Smacking the kid around won't undo the experience for the cat.
Needlessly? So "for food" constitutes "needlessly"?
I can't hear you over the sizzling of my delicious 12oz ribeye steak.This is grey area that could probably be argued over many pages, one cat being beaten to me still does not compare to people contributing to millions of animals deaths, humanely killed or not.
What would you do then? Give him a good telling off?
Totally agree with Noel here. I'd probably end up paralyzing the ***** if i was near him.
This is grey area that could probably be argued over many pages, one cat being beaten to me still does not compare to people contributing to millions of animals deaths, humanely killed or not.
No, but it might deter him from repeating it on another cat, or the same cat again.
This is grey area that could probably be argued over many pages, one cat being beaten to me still does not compare to people contributing to millions of animals deaths, humanely killed or not.
Maybe someone should try talking to the teenager? Find out why he did it? Challenge his views? You know, using 21st century methods of dealing with the problem, not backwards medieval solutions.