Before Wisdom

Less than a month after the people at 4Chan discovered the identity of the “cat bin lady”, they are going after a girl who tossed a bucket full of puppies into a river.

http://gawker.com/5626105/4chan-on-the-hunt-for-puppy+throwing-girl

A new internet outrage against animal abusers is bubbling. The director of “Armageddon” and “Transformers” is even offering a $50K award:

http://www.ecorazzi.com/2010/09/01/michael-bay-offers-50k-reward-for-capture-of-puppy-throwing-girl

And it looks like the two people involved with the online video are about to get busted:

Faced with threats from 4chan, a person identifying himself as the girl’s brother asked for help on the forum section of Croatian gaming site HCL.hr, arguing that these were stray puppies and that they had to do it to protect their health.

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/after-cat-in-bin-woman-puppythrowing-girl-sparks-online-outrage-20100901-14l3g.html

This girl could have put a little work in to get veterinary care and found homes for those puppies. Even if she could not, the girl did not have to have herself filmed killing the puppies, nor did her brother have to put the film up on the internet. So, I think it is a good thing 4Chan went after them and is causing an outrage. Putting up videos of cruelty should be something that is shamed.

How do you deal with these people though?

You can’t throw them away. It is also fairly uncommon for people to admit they are wrong and become compassionate after having many, many people express hostility at them.

I’ve never been cruel to animals, but I have been in a room full of people censuring me. It was hard to filter out their anger and consider their points objectively. At all. I witnessed a number of people in the same situation who only became hostile as a result and who did not change.

So, how do you teach a person who did something negative, not to be negative anymore?

Again, I think the internet hostility over the “cat bin lady” and now the “puppy tossing girl” is a good thing. It is drawing a much needed line.

However, there is an element of hypocrisy going on.

The girl tossed the puppies away to kill them. The puppies unwanted and with no perceived value.

What about other animals that are unwanted and with no perceived value?

Most people take part in a similar throwing out of animals every day by buying eggs. Male chicks, which have no value to the egg industry are literally thrown out the way these puppies were thrown out:

I don’t mean any offense to anyone. I used to eat eggs myself and I don’t think I am better than anyone else. I’m just trying to start a discussion and communicate what may be a new idea to some people.

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Thanks.

** Update **

Police have taken the girl into custody

It has been over 30 years since I went vegetarian. Aside from a deviant period of about a year and a half in college I have been one all of this time. I have been a vegan for about over 15 years.

During that time I have met some wonderful people who were carnists. I have also met plenty of people who, upon simply meeting me, have given me what they thought were original “witticisms” ,

I’m not the only person who has had this experience, as you can see from the internet classic “Defensive Omnivore Bingo” pictured below, followed up by the more modern sequel.

If you are using Firefox ( and you know you should be ) you can make the text larger by holding down your Ctrl key and pressing your ‘+’ key. Doing the same but pressing the ‘-’ will return the text to normal size.

Enjoy!

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