• This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. We are here to discuss them in a civil political debate. If this is your first visit to our political forums, be sure to check out the RULES. Registering for debate politics is necessary before posting. Register today to participate - it's free!

18-year old charged in Florida cat mutilations

If you spend your free time torturing animals for kicks there is something monstrously wrong with you; end of story.
 
Young boys killing small animals is not out of the ordinary. If its other peoples cats, obviously there are charges that can be made, since the animal is someone else property. But I mean, little boys hunt down small animals all the time. I don't know how many squirrels, frogs, birds, and other various small animals I shot at, up at my grandpa's cabin when I was a youngster.
 
talloulou said:
If you spend your free time torturing animals for kicks there is something monstrously wrong with you; end of story.
Click to expand...

Hmm, how about destroying a nest of ants with firecrackers. :)
 
Glücksritter said:
Hmm, how about destroying a nest of ants with firecrackers. :)
Click to expand...

Or burning ants with a magnifying glass, or pulling the wings off of flies, or the legs off of grasshoppers....
 
talloulou said:
I think there's a difference between small boys putting salt on a snail vs 18 year old hunting down the neighbors pet and skinning it...obviously.
Click to expand...

There probably isn't any difference to a kid who does it. I don't think kids are fully capable of understanding and comprehending the effects of their actions.
 
Dr_Patrick said:
There probably isn't any difference to a kid who does it. I don't think kids are fully capable of understanding and comprehending the effects of their actions.
Click to expand...

An 18 year old isn't exactly a kiddo. Furthermore if you catch your 8 year old pulling the wings off a fly or putting salt on a slug you should reprimand the child but not necessarily get hysterical over it. Same thing with a 10 year old with a bee-bee gun shooting squirrels. I'd tell my kid, "Look you don't just kill for fun so unless you're gonna eat that squirrel don't kill it."

But when your full grown 18 year old boy is skinning cats you have a problem, a big problem. If your son is skinning cats for fun, crushing in their skulls, etc for ****s and giggles then I think you're a damn incompetent fool parent if you don't recognize there are deep psychological issues at play.
 
The silenced majority said:
If that kid did that to one of my cats he would never get the chance to develop in to a functioning serial killer as I would brake every single bone in his body, kick every one of his teeth out and would repeat those steps again & again every time I got out of jail for doing it.



Cat-killers (and those who abuse Pets in general) deserve nothing less than the harshest of vigilante justice.
Click to expand...

Eh, it's just a damn cat.
 
talloulou said:
An 18 year old isn't exactly a kiddo. Furthermore if you catch your 8 year old pulling the wings off a fly or putting salt on a slug you should reprimand the child but not necessarily get hysterical over it. Same thing with a 10 year old with a bee-bee gun shooting squirrels. I'd tell my kid, "Look you don't just kill for fun so unless you're gonna eat that squirrel don't kill it."

But when your full grown 18 year old boy is skinning cats you have a problem, a big problem. If your son is skinning cats for fun, crushing in their skulls, etc for ****s and giggles then I think you're a damn incompetent fool parent if you don't recognize there are deep psychological issues at play.
Click to expand...

That's possible too. I'm just saying that he isn't necessarily going to be a serial killer because of these actions.
 
WI Crippler said:
Young boys killing small animals is not out of the ordinary. If its other peoples cats, obviously there are charges that can be made, since the animal is someone else property. But I mean, little boys hunt down small animals all the time. I don't know how many squirrels, frogs, birds, and other various small animals I shot at, up at my grandpa's cabin when I was a youngster.
Click to expand...



Hunting wild animals for sport and mutilating neighborhood cats are two categorically different things.
 
Polynikes said:
Hunting wild animals for sport and mutilating neighborhood cats are two categorically different things.
Click to expand...

Can and should a kid sport hunt? Hunting domestic animals is a kid's sport hunting if they grow up in a city.
 
Leather Belt said:
WHY DID HE DO THAT TO THIS CAT?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO A TIE WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

failcat.jpg
Click to expand...

Who knew that there were LOLCat trolls?
 
This is burglary and theft / destruction of property - nothing more, nothing less.
 
dirtpoorchris said:
Yes.. but he is saying it falls in the realm of property damage.
Click to expand...

Alex Libman said:
This is burglary and theft / destruction of property - nothing more, nothing less.
Click to expand...

To me that implies that he sees nothing wrong with mutilating animals and that there should be no charge tied with that. Of course, I could be wrong and that's why I asked in an attempt to clarify.
 
talloulou said:
An 18 year old isn't exactly a kiddo. Furthermore if you catch your 8 year old pulling the wings off a fly or putting salt on a slug you should reprimand the child but not necessarily get hysterical over it. Same thing with a 10 year old with a bee-bee gun shooting squirrels. I'd tell my kid, "Look you don't just kill for fun so unless you're gonna eat that squirrel don't kill it."

But when your full grown 18 year old boy is skinning cats you have a problem, a big problem. If your son is skinning cats for fun, crushing in their skulls, etc for ****s and giggles then I think you're a damn incompetent fool parent if you don't recognize there are deep psychological issues at play.
Click to expand...

Yeah, at 18 years old doing what this kid is doing, its a bit absurd to think that his activities are normal.
 
Dr_Patrick said:
To me that implies that he sees nothing wrong with mutilating animals and that there should be no charge tied with that. Of course, I could be wrong and that's why I asked in an attempt to clarify.
Click to expand...

If someone comes up to your window and puts their fist through it is it wrong?

Does a cat have human rights? I thought that in most states you legally can't own a cat because they cannot be taught to obey. You just own them outside the law or something.
 
Last edited:
dirtpoorchris said:
If someone comes up to your window and puts their fist through it is it wrong?
Click to expand...

Um...yes. What point are you getting at? Perhaps we should wait for an answer from the poster that I was actually replying to.
 
dirtpoorchris said:
Does a cat have human rights? I thought that in most states you legally can't own a cat because they cannot be taught to obey. You just own them outside the law or something.
Click to expand...

Yes, but there are animal abuse laws. I certainly think that this would qualify.
 
The silenced majority said:
I feel people who abuse cats deserve what I described. Do you think its OK to kill cats?
Click to expand...

What this kid did?

Nope.

He clearly needs a shrink.

However, he is a human, sort of, and should be examined to see what broke inside him and why it broke, and that should be fixed if possible.

In the end, they're just cats, vemin, nothing to sweat over.

Now, if he did that to hamsters, he should be tortured to within an inch of his life....
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom