[Playboy5]

I wonder if PETA has been made aware of this.

I do not support them or their beliefs, but I would like to see how they would respond.

I am like PB5 when it comes to cruel heartless acts of violence, like this one. By the time I was about 12 my Father had educated me on what was right and wrong, and how my action could lead to either positive or negative consequences. Many people call it the age of reason, my Father called it the "time of the Hickory Switch".

Now, am I saying that I always made the right choice, no, as a matter of fact I may have made a couple stupid ones yesterday. But I have enough common sense and understanding of what may or may not happen, that I used what i consider my own set of scales that I use to determine if the end justifies the means.

My biggest concern with an act of this nature is that those two teens, are on the verge of adulthood. The one who turned 18 could now join our armed services, and really do anything in our country other than buy alcohol or run for president, yet couldn't reason out the ramifications and consequences of such a senseless act.

For what reason could anyone have, to do such a crime?

What was and is their mind set that they could chase down a defenseless creature and torture and brutally kill it?

Somewhere in their development, there had to be a time where something took place that made them feel that they were above being punished. I don't know if they thought they wouldn't get caught, or if they didn't care because of what they had gotten away with in the past.

I just know that it takes a certain type of person to do such a thing. To kill anything for no reason, takes a total lack of respect, feelings, understanding and empathy for nature and life.

All too often in todays society, we see parents take up for their children, defend them to the hilt, no matter what their actions. Parents go into defense mode, threatening to file suite at the drop of the hat, they can't or wont face the facts that their child may have actually did something wrong. When I was growing up if I were accused of anything my Father found me guilty on the spot, and I took my punishment at school knowing that I would receive a greater reinforcement to do the right thing when Dad got in from work later that evening.

Today we see schools with which can do little to actually punish or discipline a child, let alone a teenager. Very few parents sign the corpral punishment forms, schools our discouraged from using out of school suspensions, due to attendence figures and the funding that school systems receive.

So what does this say about society? Where were we 20 years ago, where are now, and where will we be 20 years from now?

I hope that they can see the error in their actions, I only hope that they see the real reasons for them being punished, I hope they suffer for what they did and are remorseful for their senseless crime and not just upset because they were caught.

Time will only tell.

It doesn't get any better than this! I agree that Doc, IMO, is the best person on BGR! Always makes great posts and points and has the Old School approach about him! From Doc's #1 fan!
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