[Susan]

Originally Posted by philovan ↗

You make a good point and I share your visceral aversion to such stuff. Yet there is plenty of material on this site that documents the gory and deadly outcome of sadistic tendencies being exercised so as to create human victims (e.g. executions by cartels, ISIS, etc.). So what is the basis for a double standard? That small animals are defenseless victims? But so are many of the civilian victims of such executioners. Also, who can say what role the existence of sites such as this plays in the recording of massacres? I have no doubt that such killers would do their dirty work in any event, but knowing that it will appear on the Internet may encourage a bit more "drama", more drawn out and agonizing deaths in order to facilitate the intimidation of others. Indeed some of them are staged specifically with their propagation on the Internet in mind.

In summary: I share your concerns on a "gut" level, but have a hard time constructing a logical argument for discriminatory censorship in a Darwinian framework wherein humans are just a "higher" (in a narrowly defined sense involving language and technological development) animal. If you want to argue from a religious perspective, that is a different ballgame, and I have not addressed those sorts of arguments.

I can't see people killing others just to post it online, plus the risk of getting caught for such a serious crime is very high, and the price to be paid is high also.

[philovan]

Originally Posted by slyksleevemuckyey ↗

I can't see people killing others just to post it online, plus the risk of getting caught for such a serious crime is very high, and the price to be paid is high also.

Correct. I didn't imply that they did. What I suggested was that, given a killing or killings was planned anyway (particularly executions done for ideological or gang rivalry reasons) they may sometimes be conducted in a more drawn out and sadistic way than they would have been without an Internet audience in mind. If you want to terrorize and intimidate people via a video you may do things in the most horrible and painful ways you can think of.

[griblet]

Originally Posted by philovan ↗

Watch and see if somebody isn't going to bitch about showing the violent death of an animal - somebody who has no problem with similar deaths of humans.

That would be me then. Anything to do with animals, I cannot look at, get sad. With people..... MEH!!!!

[The Krokodil]

Shit, I guess he Fucked up!

[joak]

aw come on!

i got an infraction for posting a picture of a squashed cat.

[ousoonerchic]

[twayblade]

Poor little kitty.