Man leaves dog on leash outside elevator

[Curapa]

We are going to have to agree to disagree.

I studied psychology in college and while I am not an expert I do know that the fact I find one funny and another not has nothing to do with being desensitized. If anything it shows the opposite, one is real...not funny, one is fake...funny. There are also a large group of "shrinks" that believe it's just human nature.

I will not speak of Vietnam because I was not born or will not pretend to know what it was like. But I do know adaptation is key to survival in any extreme situation. "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Darwin

People have been evil, sick and twisted since the beginning of time. The fact that some find a particular "sick" thing funny makes one none of the above. The thought and desire to do such things can be a slippery slope though.

To me the dog video was sick, the cat video was funny. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and sense of humor. I do not think badly about the people that laughed at the dog, it's their right. If they recreated the act to see it in person that's a different story.

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by Curapa

We are going to have to agree to disagree.

There are also a large group of "shrinks" that believe it's just human nature.

Which just goes to prove my point... they are just as prone to being desensitized as any other group. Perhaps it was human nature to kill for fun hundreds of thousands of years ago, but I would like to think that we, as a species, have risen above such things.

I will not speak of Vietnam because I was not born or will not pretend to know what it was like.

I spoke of Nam only because of personal experience. You'll find the same thing to be true of any war. The participants become numb to the horrors around them, as much to preserve their own sanity as for any other reason.

People have been evil, sick and twisted since the beginning of time. The fact that some find a particular "sick" thing funny makes one none of the above. The thought and desire to do such things can be a slippery slope though.

Agreed, You make my point. It's the presentation of that thought to the
masses of people through videos like this that I'm talking about.

To me the dog video was sick, the cat video was funny. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and sense of humor. I do not think badly about the people that laughed at the dog, it's their right. If they recreated the act to see it in person that's a different story.

See, I had a different take on the dog vid. To me, it wasn't funny, nor was it sick. Viewing it, I never got the feeling that the dogs owner deliberately tried to hurt his dog. It was just a horrible accident that fortunately ended well. Just an accident, not a deliberate attempt to portray torture and death to a living animal. The cat video, on the other hand, was exactly that. The people that made it created or recreated the action so that you could see it in person thru the video, and, as you have just said, that's a different story.

For me, I just fail to see the humor in any depiction of the hurting of animals.

[Curapa]

Like I said, agree to disagree. Discussing it further would be a moot point. Now, I have some stuff to do.

[Destroyer]

Whatever....