saw this on the news tonight..

[IttyBittyKitty]

Originally posted by kitten645
The thing that makes this even more horrible and what people who believe "it's just an animal" should know that this sort of behavior inevitably leads to equal horrors toward people. See Jeffrey Daumer(sp?). Such disregard for a life that cannot defend itself should reap the harshest of punishments. I don't believe that anyone commiting this sort of act can be "rehabilitated". Where does one go after doing something so against every "human" compassion??

Jeffrey Dahmer is but one example...

Some of you may have heard of the "Homocidal Triad" ... in almost all retrospective assessments of serial murderers, they have found childhood/adolescent history of two of three behaviours, one of which is cruelty to animals.

I would bet a million dollars that at least one of these vile, disgusting individuals will one day be arrested for rape and/or murder. Those who commit such aberrant acts against any creature do so because they derive satisfaction from it, and they will not stop. The lesson that these creeps will learn from being in prison? Don't get caught. That's the only lesson that violent criminals ever learn.

The price that society pays for ignoring cruelty to animals is that one day, a human being will die at the hands of these men in the same fashion. THEN, and only then, will everyone bleat on about how "it all could have been prevented."

Rehabilitation, when it comes to cruel criminal acts, is a farce. I am thoroughly against giving killers, child molesters, and rapists a second chance. They certainly didn't give their victims a second chance. In the case of murder, the victim gets the death penalty and the perpetrator may walk away with just 10 years served behind bars.

We need to do away with these ridiculous ideas.

EDITED ... TO ..er... tone it down a bit as the Mayors are away and we promised to be good!!