Huge parenting failure. Getting a kid an animal without teaching them the respect needed. I was so careful with my pets as a kid because I respected them as living creatures and I understood how big and scary a human can be.
This is the most fediverse response I could have expected.
Hey everyone, this person is super moral.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with having strong morality. I think it’s perfectly acceptable discourse.
You had to go and make things weird.
It’s just par for the course on lemmy/the fediverse. Keep an eye for common conversations featuring, “I think your comment proving your morality isn’t enough, here’s how you could be even more!”
Idk why this place isl Ike this. Every damn comment section.
If everybody is a sob you are the sob
Yeah wow imagine thinking dropping an animal to its death is parenting failure. I’m crazy
The story is definitely not real.
Responding to the story as if anyone actually believes this is an acceptable thing to do is moral grandstanding. No one is impressed that you think this is a bad thing. Everyone already knows this.
Like your intellectual grandstanding is better by even an iota.
Why wouldnt it be real? Plenty of kids do this kind of “playing” with animals ask people how many pets they had as a kid.
Maybe most people here think its bad but in general people dont see it as a failure of the parent. I can see how you would think its grandstanding and it wasnt my intention. I was just trying to give a sane reply to a cruel post.
This comment section is a trip.
There is a ride called drop zone at the local theme park. When I was a kid, we’d win prizes in the arcade next to it, and often I’d get a parachute man and put him on my knee and watch him fall like 10 stories. No hamsters were murdered in my childhood parachute man antics though…
At first i wondered how shitty the parachute must’ve been, but then I remembered that I had dwarf hamsters as a kid, not normal ones.
Also for some reason my mom made the mistake of getting a boy and a girl and they did exactly what you’d think. Except that the cage was too small for that many critters and the momma started eating the babies out of stress…
😳
Dont worry she didnt eat all of them! I think we had like 3 or 4 generations of inbred hamsters before we finally got a second cage and segregated them.
… as an adult i am staunchly against any “pet” that has to be kept in a cage or enclosure.
Kids shouldn’t have rodents as pets.
And I had one as a kid…
Rats are great kid pets. But as any pet should be primarily be taken care off by adults, not the kids themselves
Pretty sure the Hamster would be fine, didn’t Kurzgesagt have a video on this kinda stuff where they tossed a mouse of a skyscraper but due to the mass and size of the mouse it doesn’t reach a speed in which it dies on impact?
From what I’ve seen on the internet hamsters need to be on a 24/7 suicide watch, even without retard kids throwing them from buildings.
Anon has either never owned a hamster or did own a hamster and is a psychopath that had no issues with animal abuse.
It is also possible that the fictional 9yo anon didn’t have a firm grasp on physics, the wisdom not to endanger an animal for their own entertainment, nor the awareness that they didn’t understand how actual parachutes work
(couldn’t be me, at that age I had a drivers license, a stable job and the ability to vote)
The dad on the other hand…
Only thing the dad did wrong is set a bad example by getting caught laughing. Don’t they say comedy is tragedy sped up?
