War does strange things to people.Ryan wrote:
How many people purposely hit gophers and cats and other animals? Not many. Their puny little brains tell them to run across the street and then they get hit. It wasn't the drivers fault.Smithereener wrote:
Because the actions of a few warrant the condemnation of the rest?colonelioan wrote:
Fucking Idiots, I'd do this with that retard, and also put some MG-42 Rounds in his mouth, stupid marines.
Don't get me wrong, it's horrible that someone would actually throw a puppy to its death and still grin about it. Even worse to post it on youtube to show everyone else their exploits. But in the end, it's just another dead animal. We see roadkill all the time - within this week, I saw three different cats on the street - but the world keeps spinning. There are other, far worse atrocities occuring elsewhere, that warrant more attention than this.
This is not just another dead animal. That marine had no reason what so ever to do what he did. He did it on purpose, for a lack of something better to do. He probably hasn't killed an Iraqi in a few months, so he decided to take anything he saw and throw it off a cliff. Total bullshit.
Now, just for clarification, I am not trying - in any way - to defend the actions of that marine. What he did was disgustingly wrong, animal cruelty in general is just plain wrong. I wish that he could've just let it go, or if anything else, kill it in the most humane way possible.
But the point still stands, at the end of the day, it's just another death of an animal - whether it be accidental (roadkill) or deliberate (chucking it off of a cliff). There may be no "real" justification for what he did - then again, some people will never accept any, only choosing to continue to deride him.
