"Shock Rise in Animal Cruelty"

[Third_Density_Resident]

There was an article in the main newspaper where I live, The Courier-Mail, about the sudden rise in animal cruelty. An RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) chief inspector here said, "I have been in this job for 14 years but I have never witnessed such a high level of violence and intentional cruelty". Some of the specific cases cited are truly stomach-churning in their level of depravity. What is most disturbing is the fact that the rise in cruelty has been chiefly brought about by an increase in people who have gone out of their way to torture animals, rather than by an increase in neglectful behaviour.

Doing an internet search, I found the following article, which seems to confirm that this rise in animal cruelty is a worldwide occurrence:

Animal cruelty on the rise in Britain
July 26, 2006 - 9:14AM

Britain suffered a worrying rise in animal cruelty last year with an increase in convictions and cases including a cat boiled to death in a washing machine and an owner sawing off his dog's leg, the RSPCA said on Wednesday.

The animal charity said their inspectors had also seen an alarming increase in neglect and mistreatment of pets.

"2005 will go down as one of the most violent towards animals," said Jackie Bullard, RSPCA director general.

The charity said the number of convictions secured for animal cruelty had risen by 20 per cent while there had been a 6 per cent rise in the number of cases reported and investigated.

The last paragraph above is chilling, especially in light of the fact that

One particularly striking feature of psychopathy is that extremely violent and antisocial behaviour appears at a very early age, often including casual and thoughtless lying, petty theft, a pattern of killing animals, early experimentation with sex, and stealing [Hare 1993, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us].

In Adventures with Cassiopaea, Laura mentions the fact that "early cruelty to animals is almost a dead giveaway to the psychopathic personality".

So why the rise in animal cruelty, a sign of psychopathy? The answer is in the following:

Sociobiologists are suggesting that increasing psychopathy is an expression of a particular genetically-based reproductive strategy. Simply put, most people have a couple of children and devote a lot of time and effort to their care. Psychopaths systematically mate with and abandon large numbers of women. They waste little of their energy raising children, and in this way, psychopathic genes are being propagated like wildre. [From Adventures with Cassiopaea]

Thus what we have with the sudden increases in animal cruelty is concrete evidence of the above. Psychopaths are indeed on the increase. The original newspaper article I quoted surprisingly made the link that animal cruelty leads to human cruelty later on. Most media reports don't get this far, for a few obvious reasons.

 

[Laura]

Well, this is particularly chilling. I'm not even happy to have evidence that tends to support what I was writing four years ago. I'd rather have been wrong.

 

[ArdVan]

While I was blogging to express my anger about the war with Israel, I had the thought that IMO the Bible story of Sodom and Gomorrah is not a story but a description what happens to a civilisation where the psychopaths have completely taken over. And because this always needs some time (maybe about the famous 3600 years until the genetics have spread everywhere) it's what happens to the people on this earth as long as they don't know about the two kinds of humans. Then the comets appear again (god lets rain fire) and everything is destroyed. The cycle starts again.

I know the C's said something different but I find it a good analogy.

 

[Laura]

Well, what the C's said doesn't really contradict your scenario...

Q: (L) Were Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by nuclear weapons?
A: Yes and no.
Q: (L) How were they destroyed?
A: EMP
Q: (L) What is "EMP?"
A: Electromagnetic pulse.


Q: (L) How were Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed and the other cities of the plain? And by whom?
A: Nuclear; EM pulse. Who else?
Q: (L) The lizzies?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Why?
A: To implant fear and obedience.
Q: (L) Weren't the Sodom and Gomorrans really evil and bad doing sodomy and Gomorrahy?14
A: That is a deception of history.
Q: (L) Did Lot's wife get turned into a pillar of salt?
A: No.
Q: (L) Is there any symbolism in that particular story [Lot's wife] for us today?
A: No.

And for all we know, we are in for some "EM Pulse" events this time around. I wonder if a comet or asteroid or other cosmic body can produce an EM pulse?

 

[dhess31]

Or maybe an em pulse with the ensuing damage can be made to LOOK like it was a comet or asteroid.

Don

 

[Russ]

Did anyone see a show in the UK called "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here!"?

Well, its a show where they do things like put a bowl of bugs over someone's head, things like that. Why have I bought this up? Because a lot of bugs usually die in the ordeal, whilst the focus is on the celebrity who is really having a "bad time", with all these bugs around them.

When I was young I used to go out into the garden and kill bugs. I used to "experiment" with them, put them in my toy cars etc. But one day, I thought about what I had done and it really hit me, and since then I can't even hurt a fly. I think one of the reasons why it didn't hit me sooner is that, in general no one cares about bugs and if you wanted you could kill 1000 of them in a day, go and tell someone and they would probably award you a medal for pest control. So already they are on the same level as germs, the more dead the better. The other reason was probably, you know, "I want to be an adult", ie. the feeling of power that it gave me - that I had power over others - because in the real world, as a child, I didn't really have any power over anyone, and I envied adults abilities to be able to choose when they are going to go out, what house to live in, and to be able to tell children what to do - I wanted that "kind" of power. Also, I think it could be because at that age, I hadn't really considered the idea of death, and being alive.

I didn't think, "those insects are just like me, they're just trying to survive". It wasn't until I put myself in their shoes that I could see how I was actually acting, and after that, there was no way I could continue to be that kind of person.

Now, when I see things like a spider that has been squashed because someone was "scared" of it, I find it hard to believe that someone could treat life like that. I accept that most young boys have, and will kill bugs, but when adults do it, its just weird. And to see it funded, and shown on TV - this lack of respect for the living - makes me wonder how a lot of "adults" see other people.

 

[Third_Density_Resident]

And for all we know, we are in for some "EM Pulse" events this time around. I wonder if a comet or asteroid or other cosmic body can produce an EM pulse?

I don't know how accurate the webpage is from which the following quote is taken (http://www.matter-antimatter.com/russian_comet.htm), but is does seem to answer Laura's question:

On June 30, 1908, a comet fragment collided with the earth's atmosphere in Russian Siberia. A great blue-white fireball, brighter than the Sun streaked through the sky, exploded six to eight kilometers in the atmosphere with a blinding flash and intense pulse of heat. The blast could be heard over 1,000 kilometers away. An electromagnetic pulse like anomalies were reported, and magnetic storm began a few minutes after the explosion.