As a Peaceful Human Living On This Earth, I Will Never Understand People Who Abuse Their Pets

[Anastasia]

that called 'mental retardation'
looks like whole bunch of the outa retarded gene pool there
back in my country those kind wuz sterilized and lucked up
personally I wud make em a tarantula food

very sad,
oh and I love rosehaires I really think they underrated

 

[Anastasia]

The people on youtube are retarded though, seriously... but then again, your average person in general is retarded. I mean the average IQ score is only around 100 or so, quite sad to me, though I realize that the majority of the population probably has a score somewhere around there, so I won't say anymore concerning that. My point is that people are simply hopeless though, our arrogance and lack of respect for others will be our very demise one day. This is one of many reasons why I despise and ignore people almost entirely. You should really just try and ignore it, as hard as that can be at times.

you beat me to it

 

[Pink-Poodle88]

Welcome to America. No ones gives a care about animals (exotics animals : t's, snakes, scorpions and so on) except for the owners and the people who actually care which is about 2/5 the population if that . All they care about is their dogs and cats which is cool and all but would they deep fry a cat? or put a dog up against a cat just for giggles? That is like putting 7 year old child up against a bear....... People in general are too worried about what others think and show off and do stupid things just for a quick laugh and to be "cool". We all have been there. Things like this though are completely rediculous. I am suprised PETA hasnt been on Youtube to see all of this mess. If you notice though all you hear about is mamals that they try and save, not snakes or t's or anything else withought "fur", which makes me question if they would do anything about it.

Yes, I know exactly what you mean and that's exactly why I don't like or support PETA or most other "animal rights activists" personally speaking. To the majority of them, if it isn't "cute and furry" then it doesn't count as animal cruelty, which is pretty stupid and over-opinionated. Though to me, spiders are definitely extremely cute, but that's just my opinion. Cute or not though, no animal deserves to be tortured or killed for no reason. I mean I personally don't like monkeys and certain types of dogs and I personally see these species as ugly, but you don't see me going around killing them or anything because I see it as wrong and would never do such a thing.

People ruthlessly kill snakes and spiders and the like all the time, sometimes just for the enjoyment of it, lots of them are even brainwashed by the media into seeing these animals as a "menace to society." Your average person is extremely ignorant and uninformed when it comes to spiders and snakes. Anyways, generally, like I said, if it isn't "cute and furry" or at least an animal that they personally like, then they don't care if it's being tortured/burned/killed/etc. for absolutely no reason. That's just how it is unfortunately.

 

[bliss]

thing like that realy piss me off. it poeple like that i like to meet(with my fist)

careful... you might end up being dubbed a keyboard warrior


sorry. couldn't resist

 

[cockroach52]

people kill eachother over who's god is more peaceful.

once you understand that, you'll understand why there are people who do it to their animals.

 

[bliss]

people kill eachother over who's god is more peaceful.

once you understand that, you'll understand why there are people who do it to their animals.

that first statement is the consequence of something called stupidity, but those kinds of discussions are usually found in The Watering Hole section of the boards.

 

[Stylopidae]

The people on youtube are retarded though, seriously... but then again, your average person in general is retarded. I mean the average IQ score is only around 100 or so, quite sad to me, though I realize that the majority of the population probably has a score somewhere around there, so I won't say anymore concerning that.

A score of 100 is considered right above the middle of 'average'. A score of 79 indicates the very upper limit of borderline mental retardation, and the upper limit of mild mental retardation is at the 69 point mark.

80 to 114 is considered the intelligence range of the average person, with 115 being the very lower limit for bright. The midrange for average would be about 97 or so.

In actuality (assuming you just didn't make the 100 point figure up), the average person is actually closer to being intelligent than they are being mentally retarded.

Of course this scale is formulated around the average score of people and is designed to compare individuals to the population, so of course you can expect society to score in the middle of the scale. That's what the scale is designed to be.

Your comment would have some relevance if this actually had anything to do with how intelligent the person was. Some of the most notorious serial killers in history had incredibly high IQs...with Charles Manson scoring a score of 121 when tested early in life.

This has more to do with mental health than IQ.

Either way, I'm not a fan of how most IQ tests to measure intelligence. I've never seen one I thought was accurate. I just don't think they measure how well people actually comprehend complex subjects*. For some people, they're accurate (there is a lot of correlation between IQ tests and standardized test scores), but for some people they miss the mark completely.

As for PETA not caring about lobsters, take a load of this article.

Sorry...wrong one. I meant this one.

What's funny about that article (other than the fact they overlook relatively simple neurobiology aspects of lobsters) is the fact that lobsters are more commonly observed eating younger individuals...and also the fact that lobsters disperse their young as microscopic larvae to drift on the ocean current.

*The route people take to criticize information they don't like (such as the above dismissal of the relevance of IQ tests) is to claim the person has scored sub-standard and merely doesn't like the results of the test as applied to themselves and dismisses those results because they're uncomfortable with what those results mean.

I was IQ tested in 5th grade and had a score of 136 by my school district. I was tested my senior year of high school and scored 141 by the same school district.

 

[Merfolk]

Could you calm down everyone, please? :wall:

Even if it's far from being very intelligent, it is just an enduring part of human nature.


Evolution is slow. During the first Greek Olympic games, looser were executed publicly, and it was the highlight of the whole event.

Later, seeing humans kill each other was a mainstay in the Antiquity's showbiz industry. During fight scenes in theatres, comedians were murdered for real.

Finally, they were riots in early 1900's in Europe when governments decided to abolish public executions (by the way of beheading) and you had people campaigning heavily to bring them back during the following years. So we changed very little in 2000 years, duh?

To this day, there is a popular TV show in Japan oposing invert (I saw the one opposing King Baboon vs Scolopendra sp.)

As a child, I spent days capturing spiders to drop them in Agelenopsis webs and see them fight. I turned my back on such activities and would never set a fight between exotic inverts. But I think some comments are a bit exaggerated and those who get angry over the death of a bug will cry in rage if they knew the suffering that goes everyday behind close doors not far from home!!!

Of course, they are more evolved people who are less attracted to those lower forms of entertainment, but we shall not expect all humans to be that open minded.

 

[Truff135]

Could you calm down everyone, please? :wall:

Even if it's far from being very intelligent, it is just an enduring part of human nature.


Evolution is slow. During the first Greek Olympic games, looser were executed publicly, and it was the highlight of the whole event.

Later, seeing humans kill each other was a mainstay in the Antiquity's showbiz industry. During fight scenes in theatres, comedians were murdered for real.

Finally, they were riots in early 1900's in Europe when governments decided to abolish public executions (by the way of beheading) and you had people campaigning heavily to bring them back during the following years. So we changed very little in 2000 years, duh?

To this day, there is a popular TV show in Japan oposing invert (I saw the one opposing King Baboon vs Scolopendra sp.)

As a child, I spent days capturing spiders to drop them in Agelenopsis webs and see them fight. I turned my back on such activities and would never set a fight between exotic inverts. But I think some comments are a bit exaggerated and those who get angry over the death of a bug will cry in rage if they knew the suffering that goes everyday behind close doors not far from home!!!

I don't think it's so much the death of the bug that's sickening, it's that our fellow human beings find it amusing or "cool" enough that they feel they need to publicize it. I understand it goes on behind closed doors which still bothers me, it's just that they're ballsy and mentally-unstable enough to put it in a place that they know will illicit a negative response, just so they can have the attention. THAT, my friend, is what sickens me. No, I'm not going to picket in front of the guy's house, I'm not even going to comment on his video. I'm not even giving him the satisfaction of thinking that one more person was appalled by his behavior, because I know it won't do anything but add fuel to his nasty little fire and encourage him to do it more. The best thing we can do as animal-lovers is to just unfortunately, turn the other cheek. The more we get fired up about it, the more he will want to do it. Think, if no one posted a comment and hardly anyone looked at it, do you think he would waste his time and money to do it again? I would think not. Enough of my rambling, let's get back to happy egg sacs and new molts, shall we???

 

[Merfolk]

Yeah!!

Actually, I've been told that if dog/cock fights weren't illegal, they'd have an organised league and a recurring TV show going on in Mexico!!! After decades of government refusal, we have here an official extreme fighting league, where opponents bleed profusely, and everyone but me thinks it's cool... They wanna see more of it... but I told you, evolution is slow!!!

 

[Truff135]

Now that you bring up Mexico, I was just reminded of a show I watched very briefly about bull-fighting. They think it shows masculinity and honor and whatever to stab a bull with spears to tick it off as it slowly bleeds to death. I guess, when you think about things like that, we should be "grateful" that the worst we have here (legally anyway) is a post on Youtube. Needless to say, I'm cheering for the bull when it gores those senseless jerks before dying.

 

[problemchildx]

You ever met a bull?

They are jerks.

;P
The world is cruel, and our history even more so. Do you see those comments that were like, "This is so funny! You gotta poke it a bunch of times so they get p**sed off and fight each other!"

 

[Truff135]

You ever met a bull?

They are jerks.

;P

I can't say I've met a bull before (I might have eaten one in the past ), and I'm sure they aren't the friendliest animal but that still doesn't mean they need to be punctured to death...

 

[_Lange]

OMG! That makes me mad! I'll <EDIT -MrI> punch that fat <EDIT -MrI> in the face. "we got woundage" wt<EDIT -MrI> is that. I hate those people

 

[bliss]

OMG! That makes me mad! I'll F#@king punch that fat faggot in the face. "we got woundage" wtf is that. I hate those people

yes, it makes us mad, but lol try not to use certain words like that when you post. im not mod, but.. well, im just saying that for your own sake, it's not necessarily that i care, it's just the mods that will have something to say to you. plus it might offend others.

 

[cockroach52]

that first statement is the consequence of something called stupidity, but those kinds of discussions are usually found in The Watering Hole section of the boards.

you sure? to elaborate, this topic is about people who put their pets into harmful situations which many people here would consider abuse. The question is why would someone do that?

My first statement was referring to human nature, or the at least how we operate. We are abusive not only to animals, but eachother. People will kill and hurt other people for fun, how can you wonder why someone would do it to an invert.

The answer is simple. People are stupid creatures.

It shouldn't take a detailed explanation to understand that.

 

[bushbuster]

Whutta lame lil pink jock strap wearin scum bag, lol

 

[AubZ]

The problem is that whenever anyone comments it just fuels the fire and the jerk will end up posting other crap just for kicks. Unfortunately it is just a fact of life that you get ppl who are missing a few marbles and whatnot. There is no use loosing sleep or complaining and kicking up a fuss cuz guess what? Nothing will be done about it. Unless of course you tell him to pit a Brazilian Wander against a sydney funnelweb. Tell him they are harmless and he can touch them. Then when you don't see the vid, you know you got revenge.

 

[Merfolk]

I think that many of the people who faint at the idea of killing birds and mammals
will likely find the killing of inverts less cruel. They put less value on those forms of life because of their ignorance.

A good proof of that ignorance is that Japanese TV show choosing a King Baboon to fight a Centipede. Without being a smarter move, choosing a LP would been lees irritating to me. It's a lesser evil since they are abundant, grow like weed and pop 2000 offsprings at once.

But watching an animal that is rare, reproduces sparcely etc being maimed like this made me mad.... All the time I kept thinking ."$%/$%&, it took on average 8 years for this bug to reach this size...an it might die right away for nothing..''

 

[-Sarah-]

That kid is twisted Whoever does that to animals ought to be dragged out of their house and beaten with a rubber hose. Maybe someone ought to hog-tie him and throw him in a tank with about 7 full-grown P. murinus.

-Sarah

You're giving them what they want and as long as you play to that feild, they're going to keep doing this stuff.

P.S. ~ Chesh, check your spelling...