I was sickened and horrified by this article I saw on the BBC today. Warning again: unpleasant. Made me want to go and hug our beloved felines.
I have to say I am pretty much morally against capital punishment. But there are sometimes things I see that might just sway me the other way. People who do this sort of thing are broken and should not be allowed to act freely in society. Any more than a rabid dog.
I’m glad you put in the warning. I could never read that article.
The blurb is enough to tell me I don’t need that info on my mind.
I hate hate hate some people in this world.
Yeah. Extreme corporal punishment is due.
Unrelated to the specific case in the OP, but still about harming cats, Don’t Fuck With Cats is a great documentary.
I recall that case. It’s unclear just how much help the Internet sleuths were, since they came to so many wrong conclusions and went down so many blind allies, unjustifiably smearing innocents in the process.
I wouldn’t call for punishment… it’s not really a moral issue IMHO. People like that are severely mentally ill by any normal standards. But we need to take them out of circulation for the general good.
I suspect that people who do that sort of thing to animals are rather likely to graduate to doing them to humans.
A lot of sick fucks in this world. May they all rot in hell.
This ^
I think, or hope, that people like that are a small minority who are seriously mentally ill. We should probably consider it a medical problem which should be treated as such?
As Terry Pratchett once said: most people, if you treat them with politeness and respect, are generally inclined to be decent and helpful.
My SO found a bunch on TikTok and now refuses to use that app. Yes, cat torture was the last straw.
It’s no comfort, but it’s important to remember that this sort of thing has always existed. It wasn’t invented recently for Internet clicks.
Still, I hope these bastards get cat scratches that become infected with stubborn cases of necrotizing fasciitis.