Marcus's Murder

[Guest guest]

I wrote this sometime back. In the wake of what happened to this innocent being, I thought it relevant to repost. The "vote count" the kids took where all but ONE wanted this baby killed, is extremely disturbing. For the one which held out against all the others, and voted to save Marcus's life, that individual should be publicly commended by every UK animal rights group and receive an award. Maybe this would bring some well deserved shame upon the other children and their parents for supporting this barbarism.~How Society and the Educational System Foster Psychopathic Behavior in Kids~Each day around this nation [and indeed the world], one can find endless stories of horrific animal cruelty--torture and murder so vile it defies imagination--conceived of and carried out by kids as young as 4 years old. There

appears to be a proliferation of fresh-faced psychopaths, spawning faster than the poisonous spores of a Frankenstenian experiment gone awry. Where and how does this evil take root?The answer is simple yet multifaceted.The most obvious cause for such blatant disregard for life, is lack of compassion and empathy passed on from parent to child. Generations of individuals perpetuating cruelty toward non-humans based on a multitude of flawed and erroneous notions: religious bias--animals were put here to [ab]use and consume; tradition, culture, misleading pseudo-scientific propaganda--humans need animal testing and experimentation for their benefit--and a general acceptance that non-humans are inferior to us and thus deserve whatever demonic behavior we decide to impose upon them.This, in light of the fact that few studies have ever been done which place emphasis on the intrinsic value of

non-humans, themselves. Nearly every study ever conducted using animals as subjects, is based solely on how they can be exploited for man's benefit. Given this reality, how can human beings state with unequivocal certainty that animals do not function on a level equal to--yet different from ours? Should animals continue to be forced to suffer, due to man's own ineptitude at being unable to decipher their depth and complexities?Such societal biases easily become "fact" in childrens minds when they remain unchallenged by parents, teachers, clergy, government officials and peers. The ingrained habits of 'culture' and 'tradition' perpetually take preference over common decency and basic logic. Our society condones and perpetuates these backward attitudes as kids move through the educational system and are further [continuously] indoctrinated by a violent and callous media.A 5 year old has the

ability to process this information and subconsciously accepts the actions of the 'majority' as the truth if s/he is not taught otherwise.The educational system is failing kids in particular, and humanity in general, when it refuses to address the ongoing decline of simple compassionate values and behavior within our young. Instead of learning our lessons from the tragic events of Columbine and Virginia Tech, we scratch our collective, clueless heads. Each time a massacre occurs it becomes fodder for discussion, but unfortunately the REAL problem is never addressed. Instead, the media panders to the sickest segment of society which continues to promote hunting programs for preschoolers--gun-toting toddlers void of the capability to fully comprehend suffering and death; preteens in 4-H programs, taught that non-humans are nothing more than meat to be sold to the highest bidder and objectified as

'products'--and now so called "survival" classes which teach impressionable minds that it's acceptable for both teachers and students to partake in the torture and killing of fully-complex beings as unlimited in their individuality and capacity for suffering, as any human. As if this despicable behavior isn't generating enough moral ambiguity, it's the very individuals which these kids usually admire and want to emulate--their teachers--who are guiding them toward reprehensible, sociopathic and murderous behavior.Programs which foster cruelty and death have absolutely NO business within school curriculums. If society is to survive and advance, it is imperative that Humane Education Programs become part of every child's schooling. We must work toward completely ridding the educational system of programs designed to desensitize kids to the suffering of non-humans. Unless and until this happens, we

will continue churning out monsters devoid of all feeling--and hastening our own destruction in the process.Brennan Browne