.Tuesday, November 6, 2007 ' 2:09 PM Y
BOO!!
On Cruelty Towards Animals
With my constant exposure and touch with HTF in order to understand it more, I cannot deny the fact that I have grown to be more immune to violence, and slightly indifferrent to gore, considering my strong repellence against it before that. It sure looks like a bad sign to me, suggesting that our compassion might slowly be eroded away, unknowingly.
Viewers might not link violence in HTF to real-life violence to fellow human-beings, but what about animals? We cannot be sure that corrupted viewers would not exert the violence they picked up in the cartoons on small animals like rabbits, cats and dogs, just like how violence on rabbits is portrayed in the shows. This is especially true when animal abuse is common among children, when they fail to realise what is wrong in it, and enjoy abusing animals so much. Children most probably cannot understand how the animals are suffering, even from the minor acts of cruelty like throwing a cat into a bucket of water or kicking these animals, and they derive entertainment and joy from doing this.
With HTF, I believe the problem would get worse, with the cuddly figures being maimed in all sorts of creative ways, the children get inspired on ways to abuse animals, or may get curious of how the real-life animals would react to such situations. I really cannot imagine what fate the small animals will suffer when ignorant children carry out what they see on the HTF shows. Instead of educating children on stopping cruelty towards animals, the shows actually 'promote' animal abuse. Children's minds are easily corrupted, and un-doing the damage would seem difficult.
*Image taken from www.freewebs.com/stampoutanimalcruelty/.
Labels: animal abuse, cultural anxieties, SinYee
