Animal cruelty threads always seem devolve into seeing who can be more callous, make the best grilling joke, or who can get their abortion comment in. It’s not the ducks. Succumbing to disease and predation in the wild is normal, we get that, but an individual who goes out of his way to kill them in the most ghastly way possible, simply for jollies, points to a deeper pathology. That’s why he got a year in the clink.
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You’re correct.
I come from a family of hunters. My mother always said, “I want to kill it, dress it, and eat it. I don’t want to *hurt* it!” We even go out of our way to kill pests humanely.
And that’s what makes us human.