What have we become?

[Digger58]

I saw a disturbing video of rsoles and a roo. I don't know the exact story, but what was said was the roo had a broken back because they hit it with a car. They then videoed while one maggot kept dancing around like a boxer and punching it in the head. It went for a while and the last I saw was the roo putting its head on the dirt, so probably knocked unconscious or dead. A girl and guy could be heard laughing and the guy said: "kick it in the ribs."

There was mention of police being told, which made me shake my head as it was a cop not long ago videoed stoning a wombat to death on a road in SA I think it was. There was the cop's son who mowed down about a dozen emus with his 4wd while laughing. I don't think either was penalised.

Useless penalties just like that farmer and his worker that killed over 400 wedgies in Victoria. Let off with a smack in the face with a wet lettuce leaf.

It's bad enough wildlife copping it from maggots like these and now have these effing fires and drought too. Though the rains have come to some areas.

Have we always been like this, or is social media exposing it now?

Jesus, I need to stop now because another thought came to me of those maggots that totally plucked an emu while it lay on the ground alive with a broken leg.

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[Gem in I]

Positive role models are a virtue mate or we could just turn feral.

Only kill what you need to eat or kill out of compassion.

Plague proportion animals I grew up with as like having greyhounds that didn't make racing time I had no positive roll models so still a grey area for me but my kids wouldn't see the necessity for it.

 

[RM Outback]

Spot on Gem in I decent role models are the best chance of young and old making good decisions. Unfortunately I know a young bloke around here who was involved in the torture killing of a kangaroo that was maimed, he and his accomplices got off with good behaviour bonds. I was shocked when I heard he was involved because I know his family and would never have put his name to the incident, he comes from a proud and decent family. The fact is he mixed with the wrong people and made some very bad decisions and he was ostracised for it. It seems like he isn't a good judge of character I heard recently he tried to end his life after getting mixed up with ice through his girlfriend at the time at the time of the incident he wasn't involved with drugs of any type. Honestly he was a terrific kid had a great job and earnt good coin, I know his employer at the time and he doesn't suffer fools after all his business and reputation could suffer like all regional locations once business is lost its lost. So not always is a decent upbringing a safety net for everyone so what's the reason we hear it more often, obviously social media plays a big part and possibly drugs in part at the end of the day it's people good and bad making bad decisions.

 

[AussieChris]

A common equation in a lot of these brutal torture killings is filming it for social media, and therein lays the problem. I have shot far too many roos, pigs, goats etc and some gut shot too, but I have never filmed the grizzly business thats for sure.

Every wanker these days wants their 15 mins, and with all the shit I have seen, maybe people are becoming numb wanting to one up the next dickhead to film one of these heinous acts. If you put this type of shit out there for all to see maybe you should be deprived of your own liberties for a while.

Realistic penalties need to be enforced.

 

[Goldtarget]

Heres a couple things on the subject.

In a healthy socially functioning community animals are looked after and treated well. The more egalitarian, the more care is taken.

Violence towards animals is a sure sign the aggression tendencies of a person have not been modified properly early enough in their younger development of socialising between birth and 5 years old.

Mostly it will be young men, often starts in mid teens, but for the most part drops right away after 26. The same tends to hold true for all violent acts, which to me is fascinating, not the violence, but the consistency to which it can be qualified. Of course there is outliers to this but its a "fair" generalisation based on studies and science.

Mostly the individuals will grow out of it in terms of modifying their tendencies and acting them out in mid 20s.. Its a problem created very early in life.

The social consruct to minimise it is actually the model we adopt here in Australia for the most part, but if I had to guess if indeed its rising, the factor at play is a lack of early behavior modification. I expect it will probably get worse overall with the messaging being adopted at the early childhood level.

Knowing the cause is not the same as having a solution to the problem though.

 

[madtuna]

yeah...nah...some kids are just xxxxxx!