Hmm, very good comeback:P. You've got me thinking. I'm not entirely sure what my answer is yet.
My immediate response was "no, it isn't ok". That's down to my personal beliefs, though, so it's biased.
The question that springs to mind is why? Why would they be torturing animals? That's something that I really can't get my head around.
What rings the "alarm bells" which I mentioned above are the reasons people are behaving the way they're behaving, their motives I guess you could say, not necessarily the behaviour itself.
So I still think the act of torturing animals is wrong, definitely not ok, in my opinion. In that situation I would also think the person is abnormal or even mentally ill. Again, I'm obviously not an expert, so I can't diagnose people. I'd be very curious about why they're doing it. I can't imagine that there's an answer to that question which justifies the act itself. So on that note, I think I've came to the conclusion that it isn't really ok. Unless of course there is a reason which justifies torturing animals (in which case I'll have to think about my answer again). I certainly can't think of any examples. But then again, like I said, I'm biased.
Well it's all semantics I guess. How could you go along with animal torture?
Another arguement that could be made is that the OP specified "weak" animals. Would it be OK for me to torture a lion?
The OP stated that (s)he ran the guinea pig under some cold water and got a thrill when it shrieked. I'd say that's a helluva lot better than something gruesome and not giving a fuck. The OP is likeley a youngster getting a taste of bloodlust that lurks in all humans.
What constitutes torture? I lived on a farm for a while. There's nothing pretty about some of the stuff that went on there. Not because anyone wanted to cause undue suffering, but because that's the way things work on a farm, and believe me we were very well funded and could afford lots of amenities for the animals that a subsistence farmer couldn't.
Folks are removed from these realities nowadays.
I'm no shrink myself, but hopefully I could spot and keep my animals away from someone evil.
Is it normal to take pleasure in torturing weak animals?
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Mice are disease spreading vermin and need to die before they infest. Have you ever lived in an infested domicile?
Have you noticed the mousetrap and poison down at the hardware store?
I guess all those folks involved with pest control are "sociopath/psychopaths"?
That said, I agree that needless torture or suffering is unnecessary.
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I think it's the pleasure aspect of the situation that rings alarm bells. At least for me it does.:)
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Thia story is posted more then once.
Yeah, point taken. But to follow that string of logic, what if someone tortured animals but didn't take any pleasure from it? Would that be OK?
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Hmm, very good comeback:P. You've got me thinking. I'm not entirely sure what my answer is yet.
My immediate response was "no, it isn't ok". That's down to my personal beliefs, though, so it's biased.
The question that springs to mind is why? Why would they be torturing animals? That's something that I really can't get my head around.
What rings the "alarm bells" which I mentioned above are the reasons people are behaving the way they're behaving, their motives I guess you could say, not necessarily the behaviour itself.
So I still think the act of torturing animals is wrong, definitely not ok, in my opinion. In that situation I would also think the person is abnormal or even mentally ill. Again, I'm obviously not an expert, so I can't diagnose people. I'd be very curious about why they're doing it. I can't imagine that there's an answer to that question which justifies the act itself. So on that note, I think I've came to the conclusion that it isn't really ok. Unless of course there is a reason which justifies torturing animals (in which case I'll have to think about my answer again). I certainly can't think of any examples. But then again, like I said, I'm biased.
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Well it's all semantics I guess. How could you go along with animal torture?
Another arguement that could be made is that the OP specified "weak" animals. Would it be OK for me to torture a lion?
The OP stated that (s)he ran the guinea pig under some cold water and got a thrill when it shrieked. I'd say that's a helluva lot better than something gruesome and not giving a fuck. The OP is likeley a youngster getting a taste of bloodlust that lurks in all humans.
What constitutes torture? I lived on a farm for a while. There's nothing pretty about some of the stuff that went on there. Not because anyone wanted to cause undue suffering, but because that's the way things work on a farm, and believe me we were very well funded and could afford lots of amenities for the animals that a subsistence farmer couldn't.
Folks are removed from these realities nowadays.
I'm no shrink myself, but hopefully I could spot and keep my animals away from someone evil.