posted November 11, 2013 05:00 AM            

Poverty, and a lack of general understanding about animal cruelty. Lack of empathy...

According to some of these articles, there are many reasons why animal cruelty is prevalent, one of which is because there isn't a "clear" law that protects animal welfare. There are laws to protect wild, endangered animals, but in this case, fish and turtles are not ...so yeah.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltobias/2012/11/02/animal-rights-in-china/

Even human rights record is poor, let alone animal rights.

posted November 11, 2013 06:13 AM            

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Originally posted by geea:
im speechless, we are turning into monsters

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We've been monsters for a long long time.

We have the capacity to create unspeakable beauty.

And the capacity for unspeakable wrong.

posted November 11, 2013 07:16 AM            

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Originally posted by geea:
im speechless, we are turning into monsters

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The worst people are the ones who deny it. They will be behind the future horrors.I can't help but hate them, although I know I should not.

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posted November 11, 2013 03:54 PM            

Get your pious American goody selves and get a grip on practical reality.

posted November 11, 2013 04:05 PM            

lol China is soooo poor right..
I've lived in poverty stricken India and I've never seen **** like this sold by vendors...
As a society, despite how they treat other humans they actually respect innocent lives.
I just hope that India does not turn into China...

It's not the people it's the government for allowing this.
If you're really disgusted than there's petition in that link I gave.

posted November 11, 2013 04:58 PM            

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Originally posted by YoursTrulyAlways:

Swift Freeze, where ever you are, posting a pic of Hiroshima on Veterans Day in the US is at minimum bad taste, and if you are American, then F you very much because folks sacrificed their lives such that you enjoy the liberties of blasting them.

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It is World remembrance day, to remember all those who have fallen.
Those who gave their lives in combat, and those who did not. Men and Women in arms, and those civilians who stood no chance.
It is an image that showcases the horror of what we as human beings can unleash on our brothers and sisters, and I hope no one ever forgets just how horrific war can be.

No offence was intended.

If you take offence and feel that those who died in Hiroshima do not deserve to be remembered, then I have no words for you.

posted November 11, 2013 05:48 PM            

Of course you don't memorialize the four million innocent civilians that were slaughtered by the aggressors across Asia senselessly, far exceeding the number dead in Hiroshima by a factor of a thousand.

posted November 11, 2013 06:22 PM            

What I'm curious about is how is this marketed in China? As a charm (for example, having a live turtle key ring keeps you safe while out of your home as the energy of the turtle shell now protects you)? Fashion statement either expressing money to burn (as it's so expensive) or daring individuality (or so it's sold as)? Or what?

posted November 11, 2013 09:10 PM            

What I don't "get" is why the buyers think it's cool to hang death on their keys or around their necks. That kind of indifference is even more cruel than the Government or the sellers.

PixieJane, they are sold for around $1.50 -->

http://www.examiner.com/article/live-pets-turned-into-key-chain-charms

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hang the key ring, containing a turtle, on the wall in his office.

"It looks nice and brings good luck," he said.

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posted November 11, 2013 09:38 PM            

But that's besides the point.

This is still disgusting in itself.

posted November 11, 2013 09:42 PM            

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Originally posted by Odette:
Oh people do much worse to each other.

But that's besides the point.

This is still disgusting in itself.

Explanations and excuses don't make it less disgusting.
That's just giving an answer to the *why*.

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For sure. The title is "I don't understand humans" so I am giving an answer - or rather what I think is the possible explanation to "Why".

I know that some people can/and probably will do worse things to each other, so I kind "get" it coz even humans' well-being aren't so very highly-valued in some cases, it's not hard to imagine that to some, animals are nothing. How is that besides the point?

posted November 11, 2013 10:40 PM            

I was telling my Chinese friend how I found a cute snapping turtle under a train rail so I just picked it up and took it back to the beach and missed my train, She told me how she would see these live turtle charms outside a subway entrance near her school.
so I did some research.