So, considering this is Lemmy I’ll clarify. I’m not talking about your neighbor who voted for Trump or your uncle who’s always been a dick. I’m talking about coming in contact with a deep down evil scary human. I’ve only met one that I can think of. When I was 12 or 13 I spent a ton of time at my best friends house. He lived on a big beautiful rural property with his dad, a few brothers and always one or two random dudes. His dad was a good electrician and a biker. So, he always had friends/associates hanging around. So one day I was staying over for a long weekend and we met a new guy his dad was housing for a week or two. Dude was a real full fledged nazi. Had a swastika under his eye and tats all over most of his body. He was from California I guess. He was “working” with my buddies dad for awhile. Anyway, the main interaction I had with him was when he pulled my friend and I in for a sermon. We were going to go hunt squirrels and do rural kid shit. He stopped us outside and had us sit on the porch. Spent about 20 minutes explaining all the things youd imagine a nazi explains. Moslty about catholics, jews and blacks. My friends dad came out after awhile and told him we didn’t need to hear that shit. He sent us away, but, I never forgot the look this dude had in his eyes. It was like the look of complete bordem mixed with extreme anger all the time.
My older brother used to run around with a young man that was raised by racist bikers. The guy killed someone during a house robbery. And still I’m not sure that that person was irredeemably evil.
But I’ve also done time in prison. And was celled up with an old man that hurt a little girl. No acknowledgement, no remorse. Smiling, outgoing. But at the time I had no idea what he had done. And I had no idea that he was a sociopath until he opened up to me about cutting crow’s tongues when he was young, because he had seen a talking crow at a circus. No empathy. As ‘nice’ as he seemed.
Looking back, he had that same look in his eyes that you can see in cult leaders and other sociopaths. When I watched the Nixium documentary with my partner, it was like that. A charismatic predator.
My grandmother used to bait a have a hart trap to catch local cats. She would let them finish whatever morsel she tempted them with, asked if they enjoyed their last meal, and would throw the trap in the pond. She would then call my cousin to come drag the trap out of the pond and bury the cat.
Is that evil?
killing/tortuing animals is psychopathic behavior. especially if it is done deliberately.
I wouldn’t say killing animals is categorically psychopathic, but killing them inhumanely certainly is.
The language of “inhumanely” has always bothered me. They aren’t humans. It’s an odd word.
This is a pretty standard method of pest control, were the cats wild pests? Or are we talking neighbours cats?
Cats should not be allowed to freely roam the streets
Waits for them to finish eating and asks if they enjoyed their last meal. She was actively humanizing them before drowning them.
Catching and drowning them is standard pest control in what world??? What a terrible way to die. If it was pest control, DPW or similar should/would be taking care of it, not some random geriatric.
It’s pretty good in comparison with almost every other method. It’s pretty privileged to assume everyone can hire professionals for pest management and even then their methods are usually worse. What method would you be suggesting?
Well, we are talking about an instance that happened in a developed nation. In most developed nations Department of Public Works exist for towns and counties. DPW or animal control covers that in my state at least. Me personally? Catch and kill with a gun because I live in a country that allows its citizens to own them. If I didn’t have a gun? One strike to the head with a large rubber mallet. Or if I’ve already gone to the trouble of catching them, maybe some kind of poison/medication. I want you to remember you’re taking the side of catching and drowning random cats in this situation as a good thing.
This is eye-opening, in a post that talks about evil people. If it’s for population control, isn’t it usually Trap, Spay, Return? But then again, there are some parts of the world people can torture or causally kill cats and dogs with no legal consequences. Humans are disappointing.
Wild cats are driving our native animals to extinction
Call me a woke weakling, but I believe even in pest control, you shouldn’t make another being suffer. If you have to kill something for a good reason, the fucking least you can do is make it quick. If you don’t have the gender-neutral balls to do it properly, you shouldn’t do it at all.
Indeed, drowning is a good method that doesn’t accidentally kill the wrong targets and is not causing prolonged suffering like many traps that latch onto the animal. What would you use to kill pests?
Not cats but I had a coworker once that put out glue traps for mice but wouldn’t finish the job after they were caught. I ended up dropping a 20 pound weight from waist high on them. It was the quickest way to do it with what I had available. I spoke to him after and there were no more glue traps.
From what I have heard, drowning sucks as a death. Just shoot them? Or decapitate? Or use anything else that takes seconds instead of minutes?
To be fair, I have never had to heal with a cat plague, the biggest thing I’ve come near were rodents and fish. No idea how practical it is. But again, if one doesn’t have the means for a humane killing, then don’t be the one killing.
Also, I’m pretty sure those “beartrap” style traps are illegal here, and poison traps are usually designed to allow target only one species (usually, rats, since you can’t get them any other way).
No, that’s not normal. The fuck?
Far better than leaving poisoned baits for random animals to eat that are not the intended target, or traps that cause extreme suffering in the same manner as bear traps, and doesn’t require guns which are very hard to access now
Well for one, Why do they have to be killed at all? For two, if they do have to be killed, drowing is also a horrific level of fear and suffering. It would be more humane to just hit it in the head with a hammer. But again, why do they HAVE to be killed and why is a geriatric grandmother taking on that responsibility?
I’m not sure about pure evil so much as sociopathic. I worked briefly in door to door sales, got taken to some high performer award celebration nonsense and was standing in one of those group circles as people were recounting war stories. “Give her the discount? Hell no. And then I realized she was too old to read what I was writing so I just added an extra year on to the contract!” Huge round of laughter, light applause.
To make it more gross… The discount was standard, we got no extra commission for having or not having it, was purely a free promotion to grease the wheels. He just didn’t because, well, the old lady he’d scammed was too trusting.
I quit shortly after.
Yeah that type of sales in particular is filled with psychos. I did it very briefly when I was like 19. My trainer had a rule that if you get in the house, always piss in their toilet. Apparently he felt it gave him the image of control.
