Would you torture?

[SorryIsGoodEnough]

I don't get squeamish. I've actually aimed for birds and squirrels in the road when I'm driving.

The only time a spider has survived entering my house is when it was too high for me to be able to kill it, and I preferred to leave it where I could see it until it ventured down the wall within my reach.

I've dated boys who were mean to my friends just so I could break their hearts and humiliate them.

This is all really tame, meaningless stuff. Stuff I don't do anymore. So I don't know for sure if I'd be able to stomach physically maiming someone in an attempt to get information. But when I look at my daughter or brother or sister and I think of them getting hurt in anyway....A cool shadow of rage makes me tremble and itch and I know for sure I would at least try to make someone pay for their crimes.

[Gravekeeper]

totally off topic but do you rescue bugs from dangerous location(sidewalk, doors) like I do?

No, not unless it flies and looks pretty. <cough>

Though anything that gets in my house will see no interference from me when nature, or rather cat, takes its course. >.>

I can't save them. Their fate is sealed the second they moved within visual range of her.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I don't get squeamish. I've actually aimed for birds and squirrels in the road when I'm driving.


This is all really tame, meaningless stuff. .

I wouldn't call that tame or meaningless. I'd call it horridyinf and distrubing.

[powerboy]

Yes I would torture someone. But only if they knew the where abouts of my loved one(s).

[Boozy]

I don't get squeamish. I've actually aimed for birds and squirrels in the road when I'm driving.

Why would you do that? Do you get pleasure from it?

[Fashion Lad!]

I don't get squeamish. I've actually aimed for birds and squirrels in the road when I'm driving.



I've dated boys who were mean to my friends just so I could break their hearts and humiliate them.

And people call me uncaring.

[SorryIsGoodEnough]

I never got pleasure from it. I defended my friends, and I never heard about those boys being mean to women again. I feel guilty for what I did to the boys, and I would never do that again. Now that I'm older, I know how mean it is, and I don't want to be hurt that way.

And as for the animals, I've never hit any. So it doesn't matter. But if I did, I mean...they're just animals. They don't have personalities and they aren't loved by their families or anything. The squirrels and crows get into the dumpsters and make a mess so had I actually hit a few, I'd have been doing a service really.

[Fashion Lad!]

And as for the animals, I've never hit any. So it doesn't matter. But if I did, I mean...they're just animals. They don't have personalities and they aren't loved by their families or anything. The squirrels and crows get into the dumpsters and make a mess so had I actually hit a few, I'd have been doing a service really

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." - Ghandi

It's another living creature! It has a heart, it breathes. It's heart pumps blood through its veins in the same manner that yours does. And some animals mate for life. Animals have personalities. They feel pain like you do. And you're absolutely wrong that they don't have personalities.

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/ani...sonalities.htm

What you think is OK is sick to me. I'm actually really and truly restraining myself because I could go off like no other. I'm going to take my full of personality dog outside and watch as he gets picked on by squirrels who also have personalities. Honestly, that is an absolutely sick statement to justify willingly trying to maim another creature.

[SorryIsGoodEnough]

I'd rather have a few less squirrels running around than have trash all over my parking lot.

If that makes me a horrible person, then okay, whatever. I can live with that. But again, I said I never actually hit any. I've slammed on my breaks when I came too close. If I don't want trash all over the place, I don't want animal corpses all over the place either. So don't cry to me about something I haven't even done.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I have to say that's the most offensive thing I've seen on this site.

Easily.

[SorryIsGoodEnough]

How is it offensive that I slam on my brakes before running over an animal? Just because I don't believe they have feelings? THAT is the most offensive thing? I'm confused. It's not like I go out and disembowel puppies. I just scare animals that are in the road! How is THAT the most offensive thing you've ever seen?

ETA: Maybe I wasn't clear before. I said things wrong, I should clarify: I don't try to run them over. Maybe it's cruel to mess with animals like that, but I don't actually try to hurt them. I really don't believe that animals should be treated like people with feelings, but that doesn't mean I wake up every day hoping to maim a small animal.

And maybe it was a little callous to liken animal corpses to trash around the parking lot. I didn't mean to come across that way. I really am ashamed of some of the things in my past. My point was that I was capable of horrible things that I DO regret, but that is why I think that if someone I cared about was in trouble, I'd be able to call upon that side of me to do something horrible to someone else in order to save them.

[Boozy]

I think that about wraps things up for this particular tangent, then. Why don't we all re-focus on the OP now?

[Nyoibo]

I find it impossible to hurt an animal, but I have absolutely no problems causing pain to a human, I feel guilty for smacking my dog or stepping on their foot, but I felt nothing when I twisted someones knee around and heard tendons tear, not sure why that is, but if I ever become a serial killer psychopath I guess I won't be starting on small animals.

[Teysa]

I don't think I could bring myself to really hurt another person. However, I think that if I were in the situation described in the OP, I would find the scariest looking torture devices I could. Think the Inquisition. I would then have them in plain view of the person I wished to speak with. After that, I would not even mention them. I would just leave the person to wonder about whether I planned on using the implements while I questioned him.

[BlaqueKatt]

I would just leave the person to wonder about whether I planned on using the implements while I questioned him.

and that would be psychological torture, remember there is more than one kind of torture.