What's wrong with these people?

[Benny Holiday]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cruelty17aug17,0,564550.story?page=1&coll=la-home-center

 

[zaika]

besides shouting certain expletives...i am speechless. my first question is where are the parents???

sick, sick people.

 

[Feraud]

I read the article about a week ago and was too disgusted to post it.
It is criminal how bored and unsupervised these kids must be.

 

[CanadaDoll]

That was one of the few things that has managed to make me feel physically ill. It's very disappointing to hear people need to go that far and do such awful things to entertain themselves

 

[ScionPI2005]

This sort of thing makes me nauseous. I just don't understand what goes through some peoples' minds, and how they decide that killing or hurting animals is a "cool" thing to do.

I work part time with Resident Life security at my university, and just about a month ago we had a case involving someone microwaving a bird in a microwave. Regardless of however the police detective determined from talking to people that the bird was dead prior to this (thank god), I really think that such an act could only be the product of a sick mind. Those are the kinds of people to stay away from. Something surely has to be missing from their conscience and their emotional makeup--something that prevents the rest of us from doing something so inhumane.

 

[lyburnum]

I felt so sick reading that. I actually couldn't continue reading because it made me feel so awful that people could seriously do that. Urgh. Something is seriously wrong with society.

 

[Twitch]

Knew where it was going in the 1st sentence. I'm not surprised. Not condoning it at all, just not surprised.:eusa_doh:

 

[scotrace]

This is quite disturbing. If ever there were a good reason to create legislation to deal with a problem, this is it.

I hate to open a can of worms, but I wonder how much of it stems from spending too much time playing first person shooter video games? Maybe they want to see what it's like to actually fire a weapon into a living thing?

 

[ScionPI2005]

I hate to open a can of worms, but I wonder how much of it stems from spending too much time playing first person shooter video games? Maybe they want to see what it's like to actually fire a weapon into a living thing?

I think that could probably be answered with psychology. I think it is safe to say that children up to a certain age are definitely influenced by media, movies, video games, parents, friends, you name it. The age in which a person's conscience and logical understanding of the world kicks in is different for everyone. While first person shooters could definitely influence some to start up violent behavior, it certainly wouldn't be the case for everyone. I was one of those kids who played computer games (albeit that was back in the day before graphics really kicked up a lot and the first person shooter was really born) though most of what I played were strategy/adventure type games that made me think.

You'll see me supporting video games for a long time, though I definitely think they need to be moderated for kids. Parents need to take the responsibility to censor their kids from violent media until the age in which they realize their child has a strong grasp on the difference between Hollywood and real life.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Terrible suffering for these precious animals. What are the parents doing, taking drugs, screwing around? Sickening.

 

[Feraud]

This is quite disturbing. If ever there were a good reason to create legislation to deal with a problem, this is it.

I hate to open a can of worms, but I wonder how much of it stems from spending too much time playing first person shooter video games? Maybe they want to see what it's like to actually fire a weapon into a living thing?

Agreed on the legislation.. but am unsure about the video game angle.

My guess is the majority of young people who commit violent actions like these (either individuals repeating the action or as a "trend" among a group) have a severe lack of parental guidance at home.

 

[Mr. Lucky]

What's wrong with these people? Small souls.

 

[scotrace]

We all seem to agree that it's a lack of parental supervision and example. Scionp12005 makes a great point. I enjoy playing FPS games (Doom was a fixation about 12 years ago!), but as a parent, I think it's important to closely monitor your kids gaming activity and be aware of their own level of maturity.


Clearly though, there can be no excuse or rationalization for this trend. The animals should be extended at least some protection under animal cruelty statutes.

 

[Feraud]

The animals should be extended at least some protection under animal cruelty statutes.

Most definitely. We can spend all day discussing the hows and whys of the action. What needs to be done now is to punish the offenders, possibly their parents, and extent to animals a right of more than just "property". Living things (no matter how insignificant or profitable we view them ) are not property along the lines of a plate glass window or automobile.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Terrible suffering for these precious animals. What are the parents doing, taking drugs, screwing around? Sickening.

Considering -where- it is....a lot of the parents are working farm labor jobs....and are thus -not- around....

unfortunatly while providing for the family, they have no time to actually -be- there....don't assume that its they dont care.....its just that they dont manage to offer guidance AND pay the bills.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I don't think it's video games so much as it's the overall culture of cruelty that this society has built up around itself in the last thirty years or so -- you see it everywhere, in the violent/aggressive/extreme/in-your-face messages pop culture throws at us. The veneer of civilization with which we claim to surround ourselves seems to be growing thinner by the year.

 

[zaika]

I don't think it's video games so much as it's the overall culture of cruelty that this society has built up around itself in the last thirty years or so -- you see it everywhere, in the violent/aggressive/extreme/in-your-face messages pop culture throws at us. The veneer of civilization with which we claim to surround ourselves seems to be growing thinner by the year.

that would be my opinion also, lizzie maine. also, i think that individualism of our culture adds to the mix. everyone is taught to believe that the only person you should care about is yourself, but it's taken to an extreme. maybe these kids feel so isolated from their family that they forget, or maybe don't even know, what it's like to care about other people. it may just unravel from there. dunno...[huh]

 

[RondoHatton]

welcome to the world of the future

Hordes of souless creeps skinning cats and igniting sleeping bums.
Random acts of cheap senseless violence to titilate dead souls incapable of genuine pleasure.
I have heard cocaine use will rewire a brain so it can not feel "normal" pleasures - perhaps other "street" drugs like speed or MDMA do too.
This is how Jim Jones (coolaid, anyone?) began his career, cruelty to animals.
Another reason for CCW.


"Let's get up a few bob for the stones concert?" - S. Clay Wilson

 

[Rooster]

I got the cure. Those boys need a trip behind the wood shed for an introduction to a stiff leather belt against their backside. The threat of such punishment kept me out of trouble in my youth.
I once had a bunch of teenage boys steal my step daughters baby kittens and then drop them one by one off an interstate overpass to watch them bounce off of car windshields...... sick little bastards.:rage: Their parents did make them come apologize after getting caught because they were bragging about it at school.

 

[nyx]

Of course, this is just conjecture, but I think there are a couple of factors involved. Like the one boy who came from a house with 25 guns. I understand having a gun for protection in your house, or a hunting rifle or two, but 25??? Why would you need 25 guns unless you were a collector, who I think would have them under lock and key somewere?

Another factor has to do with an article that I read about this generation of kids. They are told from babyhood that they are special and can do anything they want. They grow up thinking that each one of them is the center of the universe. They don't learn how to deal with disappointment and have the messed up idea that everything will work out for them...because it's them. They grow up with these delusions of grandeur, thinking they can get away with anything, that they'll live forever, and that no one else's feelings matter more than their own. It's their severe lack of empathy that scares me the most. I've seen it first hand with my 16 year old neice.