Robots For Robots Gif Dump (Page 61 of 115)

No, that dog with the pigs nose is not okay. It is humiliating to pigs.

i would have expected a harder line from elsquirrel considering the content

I have not said anything about past gif's. So, you still think animal cruelty is fun? How Interesting!

Heifets: No, you haven't mentioned the previous gifs, that was my point.

Elsquirrel, you realize that by your logic it's ok to laugh at animals getting hurt, IF it happens by accident? And I am not drawing any conclusions about any of you. I was merely illustrating why I find these reactions interesting.

There are plenty of pics of people intentionally getting hurt by others in this thread, yet you two reacted to a squirrel. I find that bizarre. I find this whole conversation bizarre.
Where does the line go anyway? Putting a snout on a dog is humiliating, but I wouldn't call it animal cruelty. The parachute dog was ok, is that still animal cruelty then? Is the only criteria that it is involuntary? In that case, why doesn't that apply to gifs of humans?

I don't like seeing animals suffering either, and I'm not out to offend anybody. You ask why it's "interesting" or "funny" to post gifs of squirrels catapulted in the air. Maybe it's not interesting in any academic way, or funny in any humorous way. It is, merely, two very fucked up things to do. Like real life Monty Python. And that alone justifies posting it.

Do you people seriously think humor or spontaneous laughing reaction is somehow connected to morality or ethics?
Does it really make you a bad person if you laugh to some creatures' misfortune or suffering? In most cases of course the sense of empathy overrides the comedy of the funny event in hand, but if something amuses you, you really cant control it.
I mean of course you have to control yourself i.e. in a situation of room filled with severely handicapped people. But what i mean is that even tough you have to keep your outside calm, you might still be laughing on the inside and just bite your tongue to not laugh out loud. You probably can't help it, and that is not immoral. Laughing on their face about their misfortune would be, though.

I mean if someone shoots a squirrel with a slingshot, it does amuse me. Just as i laugh my ass off reading the darwin awards site, which is actually a site filled with really heartbreaking and tragic stories on the other hand. But it's still funny. Black humor is all about terrible misfortunes.

It's important to remember that if a deed is immoral, however severely, it does not make it automatically unfunny. Making pranks to a friend is also immoral in a way, as you make yourself laugh on the expense of another person.

I've had a discussion similar to this about art. I think you can murder a man and call it art if you want, and be right. But you'd still be a terrible and immoral murderer.

They're SEPARATE things.

Just my two cents... 

Human getting hurt, for good measure

You've got a point there!