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/
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.
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.
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
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.
Plenty of serial killers tortured and killed animals all by themselves.
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.