Puppy Abuse

[Peikko 1,575]

True/False - Acceptable/#######?

"The U.S. Marine filmed throwing a crying puppy off a cliff may have been trying to prove his strength or bravery, several mental health professionals told ABCNEWS.com. The Marine's identity has yet to be confirmed but the United States Marine Corps has launched a full investigation and deemed his actions as "deplorable." "

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[Alex+R 0]

He's not the first one. There have also been instances of soldiers torturing puppies and one of soldiers exploding a kitten, all of which they put online as videos.

When I first found out about this I was pretty much inconsolable. Please, I am asking everyone in this thread, DO NOT post any videos of dying puppies that our soldiers have made. Please please please. I can't even look at the screen capture.

[Peikko 1,575]

It was on the news this morning, but they didn't show beyond him holding the puppy up. I wouldn't want to see it, but I do think it's necessary to examine the phenoman, if indeed it is one and see what the armed services should do to ensure that mental problems are treated not allowed to fester until things like this occur.

[isleta521 5]

Thats just sick and so sad. Reminds me of flipping channels last night and seen something about kids who beat up homeless people for the "fun" of it.

just terrible!!

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

the puppy was already dead and a the puppy whining was overlayed. watch the video yourself

[panamania79 2]

True/False - Acceptable/#######?

"The U.S. Marine filmed throwing a crying puppy off a cliff may have been trying to prove his strength or bravery, several mental health professionals told ABCNEWS.com. The Marine's identity has yet to be confirmed but the United States Marine Corps has launched a full investigation and deemed his actions as "deplorable." "

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As an animal lover, I am appauled.The torturing of animals (or any other living thing for that matter) is something I just do not tolerate.

[Peikko 1,575]

Even if that proposition were true, explain to me the rationale behind making a video with a dead puppy being tossed? How does one acquire a freshly dead puppy (the puppy wasn't showing signs of rigor mortis) and how is that an acceptable way to treat a dead puppy? What is the purpose of making a video that purports to be a live puppy being thrown to its death? Whatever way you slice it, that's not rational/normal behaviour.

Edited March 5, 2008 by Purple_Hibiscus

[panamania79 2]

Thats just sick and so sad. Reminds me of flipping channels last night and seen something about kids who beat up homeless people for the "fun" of it.

just terrible!!

Kids today just have no respect ! OMG, I sound like my parents.

[DeadPoolX 9]

Ignoring for one second the obvious moral and ethical implications of such an act, I have to ask... why make the video and post it on YouTube in the first place? That seems incredibly stupid to me. Sure, it might gain some laughs from a few sociopaths on the Internet, but is that really worth putting your career, reputation and family's character (which may be nothing like your own) at risk? I wouldn't think so.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I think you'd have to be psychotic to do something like that.

[Heracles 417]

Thats just sick and so sad. Reminds me of flipping channels last night and seen something about kids who beat up homeless people for the "fun" of it.

just terrible!!

Isolated incident #6 and PH?? Or was it something along the lines of "this sort of stuff happened all of the time and is only being brought to our attention by the media now". Apparently in the 70's and 80's they did not have cameras..

[Nagishkaw 510]

Even if that proposition were true, explain to me the rationale behind making a video with a dead puppy being tossed? How does one acquire a freshly dead puppy (the puppy wasn't showing signs of rigor mortis) and how is that an acceptable way to treat a dead puppy? What is the purpose of making a video that purports to be a live puppy being thrown to its death? Whatever way you slice it, that's not rational/normal behaviour.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Thats just sick and so sad. Reminds me of flipping channels last night and seen something about kids who beat up homeless people for the "fun" of it.

just terrible!!

Isolated incident #6 and PH?? Or was it something along the lines of "this sort of stuff happened all of the time and is only being brought to our attention by the media now". Apparently in the 70's and 80's they did not have cameras..

Sigh. You don't seem to want to understand the point that's been elaborated and explained to you in half a hundred different ways. That being established once again - I give up.

The media coverage of extreme crimes is distortive - the fact that something like this appears in a news media that's much bigger and more pervasive that it has ever been, says absolutely nothing about how common (or not) these types of things are.

I'm not saying anything particularly controversial here...

[eekee 182]

You ask people to kill other people and then are surprised when they torture animals? I know lots of soldiers are good people, but a lot of soliders also return home pretty disturbed. It's not surprising to me that stuff like this happens.

[doodlebugg 10]