Happy to hear that everything is alright for the kitten now, hope that he will recover soon.
Really things like this should be not tolerated, hard to understand the motives or reasons why people do such things...
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Not sure why this of all things would cause you to lose faith in humanity. There are worse things being done every day to babies and other people than throwing an abandoned kitten to the garbage bin. If you willingly accept infanticide, murder or rape (that is, don't lose faith in humanity because of that) but have trouble when it comes to the treatment of cats, then this is a decent reason to lose faith in humanity.
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There is cruelity everywhere, it's been like that for centuries, but I am questioning if with all these media today, are these things just been published more or are people becoming (individually) more and more cruel then like 20-50 years ago?
I mean this is not just about the cats on itself, i do also factor in all the other bad things you read about in the media these days.
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If anything, this indicates more sensitivity. 50 years ago, nobody would have cared that a kitten got thrown in the garbage.
I think that there are two aspects to this: First, our lives are a lot safer and easier than in the past, so we treat this kind of thing as out of the ordinary. Secondly, we try to disassociate ourselves from human suffering, and prefer to dwell on animal cruelty.
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Yes, though it would surely depend on place. In some people were raised "differently"
Like even 15 years ago it was completely "normal" to drown or kill in other ways unwanted kittens or puppies in the countryside where my grandma lives. "They aren't needed, so why bother" approach. They kill chickens and pigs to have dinner, why care about cat that's not useful.
Everyone did that, everyone accepted that.
Nowadays it would be frown upon. But still it's illegal to keep dogs on leash for more than 12h. And in the countryside dogs are often kept on 2m leash near doghouse for their whole life. Why? Because it was like that during my great-grandmother and grandmother times. So people from my grandma generation still think it's ok to mistreat them like that.
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Most likely, the treatment of animals in rural areas has been pretty similar worldwide, where dogs and cats are considered working animals rather than pets, and historically farmers didn't have the means to sterilize them. Nobody needs 100 barn cats and the solution is understandable, though not necessarily excusable.
My point was simply that concern over the humane treatment of animals was not invented only recently. The ASPCA was founded in 1866 and the RSPCA, even earlier, in 1824. I used to watch a show called Animal Cops - a live show about the enforcement of anti-cruelty laws. While it was gratifying to see the animals successfully rescued and the abusers arrested - it just got to be too much after a while. Sorry to say, those people were not living in rural areas and not as old as your grandma.
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'Nobody' was an exaggeration, but if anything like that made it to the media, people would likely have laughed it off. But true, more likely an editor would have stopped it because it wouldn't seem to be of interest.
So yes, a lot of it is the media, but it comes in general from hypersensitivity. Which granted is fostered by the media, which has a vested interest in keeping people feeling bad, because good news doesn't sell, and is also helped by the ability of everyone in the world to comment on everything, so what were individuals or organisations before are now informal groups of people who can pump the message to everyone else.
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I don't really agree with not given a shit about people dying all over the world, but also that it happens everywhere there is just so much one can take in, but it's also really media dependent on what is being published and not, and alot is just ignored by them.
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I can't stand to see or watch animal cruelty - so I was stupid to try to watch a documentary from HBO called 'I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA (2007)'. I could never deal with looking at the PETA information because it would upset me so much. But of course within 13-15 minutes of watching that documentary, they showed some footage I will never be able to erase from my brain.
There is a lot of animal cruelty out there.. one of the worst things is the chinese (hunnan province?) cat and dog meat festival. Gangs of people in vans actively STEAL people's pets from leashes, front yards etc to cook them..
The world is a pretty sick place.
I wish I could be a vegetarian but with Crohns disease, it's really hard to survive on - there are a LOT of vegetabels and fruits and grains etc I can't eat at all.
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Yeah or videos of animals in slaughter houses (never really watched those) but i think it would turn most into a vegatarian.
A search does show up a bunch of recipes though. :)
https://www.bing.com/search?q=chrone+and+vegatarian&form=EDGNB3&mkt=nl-nl&httpsmsn=1&refig=7eadf77a8e634869f7b2da54865a821c&sp=-1&pq=chrone+and+&sc=0-11&qs=n&sk=&cvid=7eadf77a8e634869f7b2da54865a821c
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I think you should see the massacres of dogs and cats in China
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I know there is animal cruelty everywhere, and there are people who leave a dog in their car on a hot day, or don't feed their animal enough, but lately the cruelty seems to be taking a whole new level, just a few weeks ago we had here a cat that was tied up to a fence with tiewraps and now this, a 6 day old kitten left as garbage between old papers, a worker at the press barely noticed it on time and he could stop the press.
It's dutch, but here's the article. https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2430328/kitten-op-nippertje-gered-van-papierpers
The cat had a bloody nose, but is doing okay as can be, it's not sure if there were other kittens though.
It are moments you sometimes lose faith in humanity, then again those people doing it aren't really human at all.
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/MV1nM/gray-cat
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