Dindus beat disabled guy saving a turtle...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/16/disabled-navy-veteran-beaten-after-defending-turtle.html

"Two men and a teenager in Florida are behind bars after they attacked a disabled Navy veteran who was trying to protect a turtle that they were torturing, according to police and the vet's family. ...."

 

[Marvin]

It's a fucking turtle for Christ's sake. If they were just torturing it for the sheer hell of it, okay, TNB. Props to some disabled guy who took them on. But if I wanted to eat a turtle in soup, I think I'd be totally okay doing that. Have you bitches ever eaten turtle soup? Delicious.

Now that you mention it, I've never seen that on the menu anywhere, nor eaten a turtle.
I really haven't even thought about it.
I'd definitely order it if I saw it, though.

Terrapin soup used to be a delicacy on the US east coast, to the point where they were almost fished to extinction in some areas.

See this charming recipe that recommends dropping the live turtle into the boiling water, like it's a fucking lobster.

I really want to try Terrapin soup sometime.

 

[AnOminous]

Terrapin soup used to be a delicacy on the US east coast, to the point where they were almost fished to extinction in some areas.

See this charming recipe that recommends dropping the live turtle into the boiling water, like it's a fucking lobster.

As horrible deaths go, boiling is actually rather quick. While I would personally prefer to be decapitated or shot in the brain, just being dumped into boiling water would be a few minutes long death that would end faster than dying of cancer or emphysema over a year or a couple years of pure torture. And that's how most people die. (Cf. Sherwin Nuland, How We Die; tl;dr version, usually really horribly and painfully over a long period of time.)

I couldn't bring myself to do that to a turtle because they're so cute. But I've definitely done it to many lobsters. It apparently is really painful. I've seen them break their own shells thrashing around trying to escape. It causes me a bit of chagrin any time I do it, but then they're so fucking delicious all guilt goes away, washed down with garlic-laden butter.

Lobsters are so delicious that it shouldn't be surprising that one of their favorite foods is other lobsters.

 

[January Cyst]

Terrapin soup used to be a delicacy on the US east coast, to the point where they were almost fished to extinction in some areas.

See this charming recipe that recommends dropping the live turtle into the boiling water, like it's a fucking lobster.

I really want to try Terrapin soup sometime.

I can say that turtle soup is actually delicious.
I had it once but my gran used to make mock turtle soup once in a while, highly recommended.
I doubt these upstanding young gentlemen were after the turtle to make soup though.

 

[AnOminous]

I can say that turtle soup is actually delicious.
I had it once but my gran used to make mock turtle soup once in a while, highly recommended.
I doubt these upstanding young gentlemen were after the turtle to make soup though.

This is the funny thing about being carnivorous. People who do awful things to animals as an industry just so we can eat them are totally fine.

The moment people do shit not even half as bad, but they're not doing it for food, they're just doing it because they're sick fucks, even ardent carnivores freak the fuck out and hate them.

 

[January Cyst]

The moment people do shit not even half as bad, but they're not doing it for food, they're just doing it because they're sick fucks, even ardent carnivores freak the fuck out and hate them.

Killing prey for sustenance is a lot more sensible that out of pure sadism.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

Know what, fam? Fuck the turtle, all reptiles and birds, and their cold, dead eyes.

Every last one of the bastards would dunk us in boiling AIDS water for amusement if they had the evolutionary chops.

Turtles wouldn't be wearing a permanent tard-helmet if they didn't deserve to be ostracized by niggos and used for target practice.

Fuck turtles, man.

 

[AnOminous]

Fuck turtles, man.

Hmm.

Well, that's kind of mean. And a bit partisan. So maybe. . .oh wait. . .

Yeah, definitely fuck turtles.

 

[melty]

As horrible deaths go, boiling is actually rather quick. While I would personally prefer to be decapitated or shot in the brain, just being dumped into boiling water would be a few minutes long death that would end faster than dying of cancer or emphysema over a year or a couple years of pure torture. And that's how most people die. (Cf. Sherwin Nuland, How We Die; tl;dr version, usually really horribly and painfully over a long period of time.)

I couldn't bring myself to do that to a turtle because they're so cute. But I've definitely done it to many lobsters. It apparently is really painful. I've seen them break their own shells thrashing around trying to escape. It causes me a bit of chagrin any time I do it, but then they're so fucking delicious all guilt goes away, washed down with garlic-laden butter.

Lobsters are so delicious that it shouldn't be surprising that one of their favorite foods is other lobsters.

Well yeah dying quickly is preferable to dying slowly and being tortured, but several minutes of searing pain doesn't sound all that great
What is the point of boiling lobsters alive anyway? Like is there a difference between decapitating and and boiling them then after or are people just lazy?

Tl:dr;

 

[Holdek]

Well yeah dying quickly is preferable to dying slowly and being tortured, but several minutes of searing pain doesn't sound all that great
What is the point of boiling lobsters alive anyway? Like is there a difference between decapitating and and boiling them then after or are people just lazy?

Tl:dr;
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Marine biologists don't even know if they feel pain or not because their brains are so primitive. They probably don't "suffer" so much as react by reflex. They're also cold blooded so dunking them in a pot of boiling water is going to kill them pretty quick. They do say you can use a knife to stab their heads and kill them first if you want, though.

The only time I've felt guilty killing a lobster was during a lobster bake. That's where you cook them on seaweed like this:

Spoiler

One of the lobsters was trying to crawl off and I grabbed it and put it back on.

 

[Gym Leader Elesa]

Well yeah dying quickly is preferable to dying slowly and being tortured, but several minutes of searing pain doesn't sound all that great
What is the point of boiling lobsters alive anyway? Like is there a difference between decapitating and and boiling them then after or are people just lazy?

Tl:dr;
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I was always told they had to be boiled alive or the meat wouldn't taste right. No clue how true that is, though.

 

[AnOminous]

Marine biologists don't even know if they feel pain or not because their brains are so primitive. They probably don't "suffer" so much as react by reflex. They're also cold blooded so dunking them in a pot of boiling water is going to kill them pretty quick. They do say you can use a knife to stab their heads and kill them first if you want, though.

This strikes me as one of those self-excusing things. They actually do die really quickly when you put them in boiling water, probably more quickly than they would if you did some dumb bullshit like chopping their heads off, or whatever. Seriously, what better way is there to kill a lobster other than dropping it in a pot of boiling water?

They're fucking crustaceans.

It's still impossible not to know that they're suffering when they thrash around to the point they break their own limbs off when they try to escape the boiling water you just threw them in. You just have to balance that pain against the pleasure you feel when you eat their flesh.

It is only when you are oblivious to the pain you cause in order to get your own pleasure that you become a true sociopath.

Or at least, that's what I tell myself.

 

[Holdek]

It's still impossible not to know that they're suffering when they thrash around to the point they break their own limbs off when they try to escape the boiling water you just threw them in.

Yeah but dude if you pick up a lobster it'll start thrashing around. Its neurological system isn't much more evolved than a bug's. I think it's less cut-and-dry than, say, boiling a dolphin alive.

I dunno, I'd like to think I have a decent aversion to animal suffering, and I've never instinctively considered splitting a lobster's brain stem before putting it in the pot. Maybe I should though.

 

[CleverJokeHere]

No hurt the turt.

Turt is friend.

 

[AnOminous]

Why did I write that post? Oh, yes. I know now.

Do you know what theodicy is? If you believe in God, you should. If there is an omnipotent God, why does evil exist?

That's an interesting thing. But get back to the original terms. What even is evil?

How do we distinguish between the absolutely necessary bad things we do every day and evil? We're all evil, if we simply take the definition of causing harm as being evil.

This dindu example is a perfect example of pure evil. The villains in the story were torturing and murdering an innocent creature for no reason at all other than just enjoying its suffering. A noble, if stupid individual intervened for no reason and with no benefit to himself, and then the evil motherfuckers stomped him.

Stories like this are compelling and make good clickbait for reasons like this.

But to get back to evil, this is an example of it. Supposed humans were doing something utterly disgusting, because it was pointless and directed at nothing other than causing pointless suffering, and someone intervened to stop their "fun." They then attacked that guy.

I wonder at this point if I'm talking about myself too much.

 

[AnOminous]

Yeah but dude if you pick up a lobster it'll start thrashing around. Its neurological system isn't much more evolved than a bug's. I think it's less cut-and-dry than, say, boiling a dolphin alive.

Dolphins are really cute, though, so I'd show up and protest against anything that killed them.

I want to teach dolphins to talk, and then marry a cute one!

 

[Coldgrip]

Dolphins are really cute, though, so I'd show up and protest against anything that killed them.

I want to teach dolphins to talk, and then marry a cute one!

To hell with that, I'm on the tuna's side. Pass me some 100% tuna-free canned dolphin.

 

[Marvin]

Dolphins are really cute, though, so I'd show up and protest against anything that killed them.

I want to teach dolphins to talk, and then marry a cute one!

Dolphins are the syrian refugees of the sea.

 

[Bugaboo]

An alternative to boiling the lobster is if you stab it with a sharp knife eg. a butcher's knife in a specific spot on the head it will sever the brain and it will die almost instantly. Of course you'd have to chuck it in the boiling water seconds later because the thing with shellfish is their bodies start decomposing in minutes and this can cause bad food poisoning. Came principal as the proceedure done in the "this kills the crab" image, they're severing the brain stem but since it's a soft shelled crab you can get into it with the shears rather than the stabby knife

Also, am I not turtely enough for the turtle club?

Turtle, turtle

 

[melty]

Dolphins are rapists, look it up

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

I hope they meet "Bubba" in jail