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Not really a fan of animal abuse posing as comedy.
Even when it’s just a dead insect?
I’ve laughed about jokes concerning dead babies.
Shame you didn’t like the joke, though, taste does differ.
But I think you conflate the joke with somebody harming an animal, it’s not proven that anyone did that in this instance.
There is a cicada taped to a surface - that’s animal abuse, unless it’s a dead one.
To be honest I never would have considered that somebody actually taped a live insect to something, just on feasibility alone, before these comments
It wouldn’t be hard to do with a cicada. It probably is a dead one, though.
There aren’t much cicadas where I live, so I don’t know how hard it is. The last time I heard one was probably when I was eight
Yeah, of course it is. That’s why your objection comes across as quite bizarre.
Because it could be a live one. We don’t actually know.
The cicada deserved it.
Neither am I. But the post is done, and I can’t under it. For the sake of my sanity I’m going to assume that: A. It was already dead B. nobody would do this because they would actually do this and even if it was alive it was just for the picture. Not that they actually left it playing music for 12 hours
It’s just an insect
I’m not against OOP getting their revenge, but yes
it’s just an insect and you are just a human. [1]
Just because it’s suffering isn’t as relatable to you as mammals, doesn’t make it fine.
I remember having been answered once for plants, on their responses to stimuli and poisonous features are “just evolutionary”.
Now, what most people find it hard to imagine, is that for some being significantly higher in the evolutionary path, can consider our brains as “just an evolutionary feature”.
assuming you are a human. Not sure, but I’ll go with that. ↩︎
I’d take it a step further—there is no evolutionary chain. A chain implies linear direction. I’d argue it’s more like a rhizome, evolving in a rather random direction at every moment. Intelligence as we know it is just (1) a single arbitrary attribute and (2) a single arbitrary form of intelligence. Something with more capacity toward intelligence might not even share the same kind of intelligence as us, which could mean their logic would be incomprehensible.
Yeah, afterall, evolution is just about whatever fits the environmental conditions well enough to stay for long.
Cicadas don’t buzz at night. It was your tinnitus.
June beetles will get on your screens and vibrate, making a creepy noise people sometimes think is a cicada.
We have mockingbirds that, when they become sexually mature, scream in atonal bleats all night long. You can’t chase them off, they’re in the trees and roofs. So you just lie awake, imagining a drone that could automatically fly around and shoot them.
Aren’t their noises a mating calls? You should’ve played a porno to it. Or a romantic commedies? Not sure what would be the best equivalent
Baby shark on repeat for 12 hours is the end result of a successful mating call, so I don’t really see the problem here…
The normal thing to do is just make a recording of you screaming “LET’S FAAAAAAUUUUU-UUUUUU-UUUUUUUU-UUK!!” Boost the bass and yeet that little fucker into a subwoofer with it on max blast for a few hours.
Or this, except only the last line of the 6th verse for 12 hours
Tangential thought on mating calls:
Imagine when I’m alone & sexually frustrated I just step outside and let out shrill continuous screeching bursts of noise until a man descends upon me and inserts his penis into my vagina.
Wouldn’t life be so much easier this way?
Why must humans make mating such a complex psychological game involving money & cosmetics & material possessions & status & mental manipulation
Why can’t we just go outside & scream?
That’s just mean.
It’s only fair.
Nature is savage.
Humans are part of nature too.
Ah yes, animal torture, humanity’s favorite
Do do do do do do do
Stop stop it’s already deaaaaaad
