Animal snuff videos propagated on YouTube
George Orwell
Why then, does a site like YouTube.com draw such a sharp line between "domestic" animals and wild animals, allowing gratuitous death to be shown over and over in "hunting" videos?
Bullet impacts are looped in slow motion. Prairie dogs literally explode on camera as soulless trash tests out new ammo on them. Coyotes are shot with all manner of projectile while some dishrag giggles behind the camera. Elk and antelope are shot at extreme distances (700+ yards) to test sniping skills, with no real indication that the bodies are recovered and used for meat. There is a strong emphasis on ballistics in these clips; seeing what caliber and charge "gets the job done," as if thrill-killing is a necessary chore. One can see how the concentration camps were justified after certain groups of people were declared non-human. Anthropocentric evil often extends to our own species.
These are adults doing what kids tend to experiment with on backyard songbirds & squirrels (the pellet gun phase most boys go through). As kids, they are going off of primitive hunting instincts and too young to understand the context of pointless killing. Studies have shown that human brains can lack a certain type of empathy until maturity, as a normal course of development. But when kids grow up they're supposed to develop a conscience about killing, doing it only when needed for sustenance. Some never do, hence these carnage videos.
There's a particularly heinous type with the appropriate initials, B.M., who tries to kill just about every species he can find, and likes to call them awesome or magnificent; apparently more so when they're dead. He sells DVDs of his kills. Another serial killer prides himself on "Strictly Headshots," often at long range.
In one of the most disturbing clips, you see a large, mature bull elephant get its brains blown out from the front to back of its skull. It drops like a stone and the "hunter" shows no remorse. There's the usual talk of a particular caliber being effective. The link was hard to find at time of this posting, but it's probably still out there. Many of the "safari" clips preface these killings with stories about feeding the locals, or animals being overcrowded in parks. They almost never mention the HUMAN overpopulation that created these cramped refuges in the first place. Annual world human population growth exceeds 76 million and continues to ravage animal habitat. It's the biggest environmental problem in many contexts.
Yet, when a species such as a mountain lion dares to increase its numbers by several hundred over an entire State, and strays into an encroaching sprawl development, it gets declared "overpopulated" and every yahoo with a high-powered rifle salivates to kill one. Chalk up another point for "civilized" human nature.
These are the same people who almost shot the Bison to extinction in the 1800s. Bison are a frequent, easy target in this video plague. There's a clip of some truck hunters blasting a standing Bison and getting a good laugh over it. Caliber of weapon is duly noted as "300 Rem Ultra Mag." At the end of the video, one of them says "that's how they got so many in the early days," as if it was a good feat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQFZ5V0DP6c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtWczF2hRuY (typical use of culling to justify sport-killing; any excuse will do)
Many animal species have long been endangered or depleted via sport or market hunting. It's not just limited to land by any means. Sharks, the supposed evil predator of a handful of beach-goers, are killed in the millions by humans, often in cruel manner, such as de-finning for shark fin soup. The live animal has its fins cut off and is thrown overboard to sink and die, for lack of storage space on the ship. Thanks, people of Asia, for perpetuating this sick delicacy and other gastronomical & medicinal cruelties.
The point of this posting is to generate some outrage over YouTube's allowance of animal SNUFF videos for entertainment. It's hard to respect the management of YouTube or Google for allowing this cold garbage to be shown. Impressionable kids can easily find it. There are tastefully done hunting videos that focus on patience and proper stalking, not just kill ballistics. Those should be the only ones allowed on such a public site.
This is YouTube's own policy, which seems to have a huge loophole for their serial-killing audience:
"Don't post videos showing bad stuff like animal abuse, drug abuse, under-age drinking and smoking, or bomb making. Graphic or gratuitous violence is not allowed. If your video shows someone being physically hurt, attacked, or humiliated, don't post it." (http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines)
A large percentage of "hunting" videos clearly violate the above rules. Is YouTube catering to the segment of its audience that gets off on death as entertainment? Does it come down to ad revenue? Please show some class and discretion, YouTube (and Google; the owners of YouTube). Isn't Google's motto "don't be evil?"
Stan T.
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