I clearly stated that this is cruel.
But it doesn’t just require empathy, but also prediction.
The cruelty you and others refer to (linking animal cruelty to other forms of violence) is generally the direct and immediate type which ONLY requires a normal dose of empathy to make the doer feel bad.

This kind of delayed cruelty is more akin to NOT getting out and slaughtering the injured animal you just hit with your car. It’s something that is quite easy for most people to do.
Myself, I have hit geese on two occasions and on both I got out of the car and searched for the animal, ready to take it to the vet or slaughter it if required. *I* see the unnecessary pain of the animal, and if I want an animal dead then I kill it with respect and gratitude like any other decent hunter.

This woman, however, did an act of disposal, probably on perfectly egocentric grounds and without thinking of the cats prolonged agony. That does not constitute the same level of cruelty as the “torture animals” people do, even though the cruelty may in fact be greater.

Cruelty through non-thinking does not require the same type of thinking (very low empathy, possible sociopathy/psychopathy) as does flaying the neighbours cat alive. It just requires not thinking about what will inevitably happen without your intervention.

It was a pretty antisocial thing to do, but let’s not overreact… especially if she is suffering from mental illness, there may not be much point to it anyway.

I have been warned, time and time again, that every time I masturbate, god kills a kitten.

Maybe she’s not nuts… or mean.

maybe SHE’S THE HAND OF GOD!!!!

If that’s the case, speaking for myself alone, there are gonna be a shit load more cats in trash cans I fear.

Sorry.

These are interesting points on their own, but not relevant to this incident.

They are at least as relevant to this particular blog post’s accumulation of comments as anything else is. Few of the commenters were up in arms solely because the cat belonged to someone. “Destruction of personal property” and “torture of a beloved family member” weren’t what caused everyone to fall over themselves baying for this woman’s blood. “Animal cruelty” plain and simple was enough. Or, more specifically, “cruelty to kitteh.”

If we re-read the comments, is there much indication that the responses would have been greatly different had the cat been merely a stray?

User’s been around for quite a while (maybe someone keeping a long-time account for use with viral ads,) and has posted one video and no comments.

Serial killers are often abusive to animals while developing the courage or desire to harm humans. They are undeniably socio- or psychopathic, but not necessarily psychotic.

The CCTV footage features an unidentified woman in her 20s kicking and stepping on the cat in a hallway of an officetel in southern Seoul on June 15, eventually throwing her out of a 10th-floor window and killing her.

As a bonus, the picture of the cat is pixellated.

A community collective calling for a swift reprimand in response to something the vast majority of it’s inhabitants find to be inappropriate and unacceptable is not the same some masked vigilante imposing his own unique morals on the masses.

So, we resent the Man for bearing down with his rule, and we won’t allow the society to determine for itself what can and can’t be allowed, so who pray tell can set the boundaries? Or are we all entitled to act as we please?

It’s people like you who actively try and promote a ‘do-nothing’ mindset that are going to be what damns us all. Whether it be apathy, cowardice, or complete ineptitude is no matter.

I, for one, like the idea that people aren’t as ‘free’ to do whatever stupid, criminal, etc thing they want. Not because of an oppressive minority in charge…but because of the morality of their fellow man…something thought to be long-since dead.

And you know what else? It’s the internet. This is a community with no regard to culture, race, religion, or sex. This is a massive collection of people with only one thing in common; humanity. How is it ‘enlightened’ to discourage humanity from frowning on evil behavior?

fuck her up, /b/.

There is NO way a cat could jump out and not land IN the truck.

Therefore, this cat could very easily have died from this act.

Oh, no, PLEASE! How would we cope with losing such an obviously worthy anonymous poster?

All I’m saying is don’t judge people on preconcieved notions from what you gathered from bad TV drama character portrayals.

Poor kitty, 15h in a bloody bin :(

This b**** knew exactly what she was doing. I wouldn’t be surprised if she regularly walks through that neighborhood. I dearly hope she gets exposed and busted. And then seeks counseling

http://www.vachss.com/guest_dispatches/ascione_1.html
http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=0+1278+1495&aid=3120
http://www.americanhumane.org/about-us/newsroom/fact-sheets/animal-abuse-domestic-violence.html

And she’s quite proud of herself afterward, job well done, she saunters off proudly.

She’s not a mental case.

She’s just mean.

She picked up the fucking cat and trapped it in a hot trashcan where it had a high likelihood of dying from heat or being crushed in the garbage truck.

Wood chipper. Feet first.

We had a bad run in with a cat-hater a few years ago, and I tried to explain to the guy that our cat was an indoor cat and we were doing everything we could to keep him inside, and ask him to help us out by calling us when our cat got in his yard. It only made him angrier. He was probably happier when he was able to rationalize his rage by thinking that we were deliberately letting our cat roam. Taking away his justification just pissed him off more. (Yes, he did try to kill our cat.)