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I most definitely think the freepers "I'd like to give this guy a taste of his own medicine" over reaction is somewhat comical.

That is what I thought was somewhat amusing.

Anger is a fairly normal reaction to this kind of cruelty. A living kitten is not meat.

Animals do not have souls. However, mammals are self-aware to some degree -- and dogs and cats trust us. This is why I'm against eating dogs and cats -- not because they're widdle people with fur coats, but because it's a betrayal of trust. They're on our team.

C.S. Lewis was known to believe that beloved pets gain a little bit of humanity from us over the years, just as we share in the love of Christ. That's not to say that there's a cat or dog "heaven", but it at least opens the possibility; perhaps our love makes our pets more human, just as Christ's love makes us more like Him.

God cares when animals die, even little sparrows. That doesn't mean we can't eat them, use them as slaves, or kill them when necessary; it just means that all life is precious to God. To kill an animal for human use or out of self-defense is just killing, and when done with the minimum possible pain is a perfectly moral act; to torture an animal to death simply for the pleasure of watching it suffer is to disrespect Life itself -- and the Maker of Life.

Plus I despise bullies. No rational reason -- I just hate them, always have. When I see a big thing cruelly torturing a little thing just for the hell of it, I lose it. Fortunately, I'm not a libertarian, so I have no problem imposing my own narrow moral standards on others (by force if necessary) when the situation warrants it. If I ever caught any of my neighbors doing something like this, they'd wish they'd never been born.

The Natural Law written into the heart of every man is enough to tell anybody that wanton cruelty is wrong. I pity the kind of creature that could roast a little living thing alive without the slightest twinge of conscience.

Some days it's a sad old world.

I most definitely think the freepers "I'd like to give this guy a taste of his own medicine" over reaction is somewhat comical.

That is what I thought was somewhat amusing.

Why? As men, we have the protective instinct for those who can not defend themselves. The torture of a defensless sentient animal brings that up in us. We feel that someone who would do this is a flawed member of our species.

The people who did this were picking on something that had no defense against them, and that is contemptible.

I think people are also upset because it is another sign of needless cruelty in our society. People who do things like this do not restrict their actions to animals - read about what the thugs in the "Witchita Horror" did.

I knew someone like this in high school - he got a kick out of abusing animals. He moved on to beating up people and being an enforcer for a drug gang. Today after a jail stint he has (supposedly) found God and is walking the straight and narrow. I hope it is genuine. He was always nice to me, but I could always see the thinly vieled cruelty and rage in the guy. I tried to help him, and did what I could.

I most definitely think the freepers "I'd like to give this guy a taste of his own medicine" over reaction is somewhat comical.

That is what I thought was somewhat amusing

You are certainly a snobbish, arrogant SOB, aren't you?

If you can't understand a little emotion over a defenseless animal, I certainly hope you don't have any animals.

Or kids, for that matter.