Is it normal the west is too sensitive to death?

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You would not believe the amount of people who think I'm a serial killer because I've killed a few animals. I used to work on a farm where killing was optional but I took part in it because I thought it was cool. I stomped voles when I saw them along with the other employees because they were eating our crops. I killed a squirrel that was in the barn mainly because I was 16 and wanted the edge factor. I think at that point I resigned myself to being a violent angry person. Don't worry, I got over that phase.
Anyways my main point is that it seems people in Western nations are way too sensitive to death. They think butchering a kill makes you a psycho or exterminating a few rats means you're going to hell. Try to find any less developed nation that thinks like this. You won't because the people there know it's essential to show their kids how to get their hands dirty.

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  • mouldiwarp
    3 years ago | pl

    Well, killing the squirrels and voles for fun is fucked up. It is fine to kill pest animals, but try not to make them suffer too much, it’s cruel.

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  • SwickDinging
    3 years ago

    I agree with your premise but the details you give are slightly disturbing. Surely there is a middle ground that doesn't involve killing things just because you think it's cool or you want an edge? That's a bit too far for me.

    Killing things to eat them, or because they are a pest in some way, is a means to an end. Killing things for fun suggests that someone is seriously lacking in something.

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  • my_life_my_way
    3 years ago

    People in the past used to take their kids to watch someone get executed and make a day out of it. People nowadays are extremely distanced from their own mortality

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    • CeeCee99
      3 years ago

      The quality of life was abysmal back then compared to now. Just because people endured more hardship, doesn’t make them immune to it. They lived much shorter and shittier lives because of all the shit they had to put up with.

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    • LloydAsher
      3 years ago

      Most people dont even have to dispose of their loved ones when the die. 100 years ago when grandma dies, you had to grab the shovel and bury her. Make sure its 6ft deep so wolves or something doesn't dig her up to be eaten.

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  • CeeCee99
    3 years ago

    Killing animals for fun isn’t normal. Animals getting killed for food is normal and farmers do this humanely. What isn’t normal are farmers who do it inhumanely with unnecessary suffering. Just because you’re a farmer doesn’t mean you’re immune from disturbing behaviour. What you’ve described is text book psychotic tendencies. Butchering animals for food is not a justification for your disturbed behaviour.

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    • Sanara
      3 years ago

      I mostly agree, but killing animals for fun at some point in your life doesn't guarantee you will be a serial killer or abuse animals in the future (Im also not saying its okay in itself, Im now against but everyone has done something wrong). Especially not when you're still a kid and not as developed in thinking. I did kill things for fun at least a few times when I was a child (mostly earthworms). But never as an adult. And later Ive actually felt deeply sympathetic towards animals getting abused, have donated several times to animal welfare organizations and never abused an animal in adult years or even teens. People change a lot between childhood and adulthood. I think the guy in this post already moved on from their "phase" of killing without reason, although theirs were a good bit later than mine

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    • Clunk42
      3 years ago

      I think the only psychotic thing there was the killing of the squirrel. The voles were eating the crops, and from what I know about voles, they definitely seem small enough that stomping on one would kill it immediately. You can compare it to a fisherman using their "priest" to kill a fish relatively quickly.

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  • MonteMetcalfe
    3 years ago

    You do have a point. We have become distanced from the source of our food. When I was a kid my parents took me to the Kutztown Fair in Pennsylvania. Lots of Amish & rural type of attractions. There was an "exhibit" where they actually slaughtered and butchered a pig in front of an audience. Kids were encouraged to sit up front for a good view. It was educational but I highly doubt they could even attempt such a thing today without lawsuits and protests.

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    • Jem_Shadow
      3 years ago

      How dare people not want kids to watch butcherings....

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      • MonteMetcalfe
        3 years ago

        It's not complicated, If they don't want their kids to watch they shouldn't take them to see it. Meanwhile the kids who watched learned that meat doesn't just come from the store.

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        • Jem_Shadow
          3 years ago

          That doesn't really have anything to do with the question though, which was about being sensitive to death. My mother was forced to defeather dead chickens and gut fish as a child, and she witnessed the adults killing and slaughtering other animals. It never stopped grossing her out, despite the fact she grew up seeing it, and she became vegetarian when she grew up. Everyone is different.

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          • MonteMetcalfe
            3 years ago

            Eeey-yeah, okaaay.

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      • Correction
        3 years ago

        Right? They don’t want kids to see LGBT folk existing and living their lives in public but death and violence is A-OK, apparently.

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        • MonteMetcalfe
          3 years ago

          Quite a broad assumption you've made there. How do you know no one in attendance wasn't LGBT folk?

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    • Clunk42
      3 years ago

      The Amish could definitely do it, since that type of thing is still normal in Amish culture. It's just a cultural thing. If you did it in a non-Amish area, there probably would be massive backlash.

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  • RoseIsabella
    3 years ago

    The only mouse trap that I have ever used in my life is a humane mousetrap. I enjoyed taking the mouse to a park, and releasing it there.

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  • 1WeirdGuy
    3 years ago

    Yes it's a result of our cozy lifestyle in the west. This is why immigrants from poor countries come over and do so well because they're built different. They know what real struggle is and dont worry about things that we do. When I worked construction with illegals I really admired their mentality and how they saw the bright side of things. They never got caught up in silly drama it seemed.

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  • Pilum
    3 years ago

    I agree. Too sensetive on that and other issues.

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  • olderdude-xx
    3 years ago

    Most people in America have no idea where their food comes from and what is involved in providing it.

    We used to home butcher chickens and rabbits for food all the time. We hunted squirrels, raccoons, and dear. I had friends who trapped beaver and muskrat, and the occasional fox.

    All of those animals ended up as food that the family ate.

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  • [Old Memory]
    3 years ago

    You strike me as the type of dude that is desperately trying to portray themselves as psychotic "for the edge factor" while weakly claiming you're not so that you can pretend it's not the image you want when it's obvious you really crave that image.

    You don't strike me as psychotic, you do strike me as being on the spectrum of autism.

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  • [Old Memory]
    3 years ago

    bs troll post.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      3 years ago

      I am honoured to be throught of as a troll but I assure you everything I posted is true

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  • Correction
    3 years ago

    You have to remember that a lot of people are aware that the way a person treats animals is a very good indicator of what type of person they are and it reflects how they’d like to treat other human beings, so of course those those people are going to have an adverse reaction to someone treating animals poorly.

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  • Crioc
    3 years ago

    I think the more developed the nation the more removed the people are the more removed from death the are.

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  • Sanara
    3 years ago

    I agree. I'm not for defending animal abuse of murder for that sake, but people overreact. The majority of those people also eat meat on the daily (I do too) but just don't like seeing it and being brought "closer" to the actual action

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