cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51951183

⚠️ DARK STORY:

I saw a squirrel being hit by a car the other day and quickly dying after, which was really really horrible.

That was an accident, but some kids in the UK are hurting / killing pets and wildlife as part of some horrific TikTok trend…

Guess this is what happens when lazy people let corporations co-parent their kids and Animal Rights are weak.

Animal abuse should be punished much more severely IMO.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/exposed-the-sick-world-of-tiktok-animal-abusers-306137/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/15/children-kill-pigeons-with-catapults-in-tiktok-trend/

  • GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml
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    When I was little my friends and I would often fight with the boys in our neighborhood for doing this. We ended up rescuing a fair amount of animals from them, but I’ll never forget the white out rage I felt when I realized what they were doing and wondering how many times it happened before.

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    People who harm animals are often those who go on to harm humans (not that harming other animals isn’t bad enough). Sociopathic.

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      Or maybe one day you cross a line you weren’t even aware of. At that point, the cruelty you’re inflicting suddenly hits you like a freight train. You begin to hate your actions and yourself.

      The thing is, you need to be alone to realise these things. In a crowd, the peer pressure will silence such thoughts.

      Just leave these boys to hunt and mutilate animals all alone and without a phone. Being surrounded by silence instead of cheers suddenly opens your mind. Boys can think for themselves as long as there’s no social way to outsource your thinking to the hive mind.

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        The fuck they should be left alone. Little shits need to be chucked into an institution and barring that crippled on their dominant side. I know shits like these and there’s something to be said about the abject immorality towards torturing animals, to torture a person can be done as a punishment since they will at least know why but an animal doesn’t know jack from shit all it knows is that it’s in pain.

        Fucken hell and here I think I’m a monster for wanting to torture the rich and powerful to death, then you come out saying to leave them alone because they may feel guilt. Social media makes people stupid and can cloud the senses like any drug, but it just makes ones worst aspects known these little shits need medicine or effective removal as a threat to anything. Fucken hell what an honest to the gods shit take.

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        Just leave these boys to hunt and mutilate animals all alone

        What the fuck, no. Absolutely not

        Let them go mutilate more animals in the hopes they feel guilty? No, they need to be arrested. They need real, penal consequences forbtheir actions

        The goal is to prevent animals being tortured and murdered

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          Should be arrested. Totally agree.

          In reality though, they will continue to commit these atrocities as long as they can outsource their thinking to the hive mind. Enforced change is unlikely to endure. Change emanating from within tends to last.

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              Those murderers are probably psychopaths. Are you suggesting that we have a sudden surge in psychopath count? I think it’s more likely that they are normal boys who just aren’t thinking about their actions.

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    Evil is not some boogeyman monster from.the woods or devils in he’ll. It is people doing bad things thinking they are somehow justified in being cruel. Whether it is stuff like this, or sending kids to.their death in war like Russia, or the genocidal actions in places like Palestine. This world is a sick.place, and I firmly blame politics, business and religion.

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    I wish I could say I’m surprised, but were a sick degenerate society. All in the name of money, power, and clout. Y’all can have it.