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Anonymous
hmmm, is it odd that i can take the most insanely violent/gory/sick things, when it involves a human, but when i see something bad happening to an animal, i cant help but feel horrible for them.....

odd?
>> Barksalot !!bUy38Am5hmk
>>244645
Thanks to the shit on television we all grew up with regarding death and violence towards people, as well as gruesome things on the news; I'd say it's pretty normal (common) to be galvanized to such things. Not that it's a good thing or something to be proud of!
It's quite different when you stop feeling compassion altogether.
Take my advice - stop looking at violent/gory/sick things and surround yourself with nicer things.
>> Anonymous
I think its good to be a little desensitized.
You're more prepared for certain situations that could be traumatizing.
>> Anonymous
>>244645
I'm the same way. Except humans have done plenty to deserve whatever happens to them. I can't think that animals do anything wrong like that.
>> Barksalot !!bUy38Am5hmk
>>244661
Well; "educated" or "experienced" or a combination of all would be better. I know what you mean, but with becoming "desensitized" you can also begin to lose hope for something better, or lose resolve to change bad things in your life. Maybe even begin to forget that things could be different.
>> Barksalot !!bUy38Am5hmk
>>244664
The term "humans" will always include innocent victims, who never played a part in all our problems.
>> Anonymous
I think we have been desensitized, all of us to at least some extent. But on the same token animals are innocent; it's easier to put up with something violent/sick/cruel when it is against someone we don't like. When, for instance, someone kills a whole bunch of people it's easier to imagine doing something horrible in return. While some people still may feel similarly about certain animals, it's easier to take revenge on the mass murdering human.
>> Anonymous
>>244674

thats what i figured, since more times than not, animals are innocent by standards in the violence
>> Anonymous
>>244668
every human does some form of evil in its lifetime. animals do what they need to to survive. they don't think about it.
>> Anonymous
I'm with you. I'm a total misanthrope and have a folder on my hd dedicated to human gore, but as soon as I see a cat getting hurt I can't deal. So really I shouldn't be on 4chan since like every other fucking day there's that picture of the crushed cat head or fire cat.
I also pick up roadkill to clean up and get the skeletons, but I can't even look if I drive by a dead cat.
>> Barksalot !!bUy38Am5hmk
>>244702"every human does some form of evil in its lifetime"
Like going to the bathroom and leaving a stench? Or not living past the 3rd birthday?
It may be easy to generalize humans, but it's wrong, no matter what excuse.
>> Anonymous
at first I was like you. But after a massive amount of people posted cat gore in caturday threads and so on I just look at it with the same indifference like I look at human gore. I mean, chechclear shocked also shocked me but today I feel nothing. It's a matter of exposure
>> Anonymous
Like most of the people in this thread I can bear with human gore, because I've seen so much already in /b/ and on television etc. I also know and am afraid that if I see to much gore involving animals, I'll get "immune" to that too, and I wouldn't want that. That's one of the bigger arguments why I don't visit /b/ anymore. Of course, when I'm talking about gore involving animals I don't mean the lion that kills a gazelle, because that falls under "nature goes as nature wants"

Only now I realized how senseless this post was, since it's all been said before :/
>> Anonymous
>>244661

I've found in my own life desensitivity to be a sham.

I used to watch movies with hundreds dieing in cruel and unusual ways, and with blood/gore/etc.

Then my grandmother died while I was holding her hand.

None of the cinema I'd watched, or the gore I'd been exposed to on the internet had lessened the blow in the slightest to see a human being (whom I had loved) have the life drain from their body.

Since I'd lost loved ones before but never been there at their passing, I think the realization came from more than that the loved one had died, it's from watching death come over some one and have them transformed from the person you loved to a ghoulish cadaver.

Now too, even years later I fail to see the appeal of watching death in entertainment. The "thrill" people get from such films makes me nausiated instead.
>> Anonymous
>>244645
It bothers me with humans too, depending on who it is.

Zippo cat really bothers me, but so would a series of pics of a little kid having the same thing done to him/her.