Haven't read all the responses but I'm surprised nobody picked up on this punk putting a firecracker in the snakes mouth. Isn't this symptomatic of how some psycho's start out? Does Dennis Radar (BTK strangler), Jim Jones, Henry Lee Lucas ring a bell?
Studies have shown that individuals who enjoy or are willing to inflict harm on animals are more likely to do so to humans. One of the known warning signs of certain psychopathologies, including
antisocial personality disorder, is a history of torturing pets and small animals. According to the
New York Times:
Alan R. Felthous reported in his paper "Aggression Against Cats, Dogs, and People" (1980) that
"A survey of psychiatric patients who had repeatedly tortured dogs and cats found all of them had high levels of aggression toward people as well, including one patient who had murdered a boy."
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Also...In the United States, since 2010, it has been a federal offense to create or distribute "obscene" depictions of "living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians ... subjected to serious bodily injury".[8] This statute replaced an overly broad 1999 statute[9] which was found unconstitutional in United States v. Stevens.
