Regardless of whether it's dead or alive, it's disrespectful and pointless and what bothers me most is that there ARE people out their who torture animals for numerous reasons (generally they're been neglected or abused), and there's just no reason at all to put shit like that on YouTube, an incredible network with tonnes of great stuff on it, and also a mountain of shit that reflects that full-spectrum of human activity. It's a big, fascinating, and frequently disturbing living mirror into the world's inhabitants.
I also used to enjoy some of those 'fail' compilation things, but stopped watching them because interspersed between genuinely funny and unexpected cock-ups there are people getting seriously injured - which personally kills the funny factor somewhat. It disturbs me a serious accident gets lumped in with something that's embarrassing for someone but ultimately harmless. I wonder about the people who laugh all the way through these things, and the ones who put them together and it makes me wonder if they can really are desensitised to the point that they don't think of people in videos as actual people.
If you've seen or been in car accidents, seen people die in front of you or otherwise get seriously injured, and been around for the follow up and the scars and suffering, it's hard to see shit like people getting really hurt and then think about the aftermath and then just go ahead and have a laugh.
Maybe I'm coming across as boring and overly serious, but if we need that kind if entertainment then I fear that we're primed for another war or something as people get increasingly removed from real suffering and hardship. Australia simply does not have many of the issues that are just a fact of life for an enormous number of people in the world. Travel around and see stuff, experience some personal tragedies - you don't lose your sense of humour, but it can make you re-evaluate what's worth laughing at.
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
