But it can swing right back around to hugbox with people deciding to do something about all those people abusing fluffies.
Hugbox V. Abuse is actually an in-universe conflict in my headcanon. And the hugbox side is gradually winning, especially after the actions of a certain group of abusers, who did things for their cause that many other abusers would draw the line at. A lot of abusers just don’t want to be associated with a group like that.
Honestly, I think, if fluffies were real, anyone who openly advocated abusing them would probably come across as a psychopath. Killing ferals humanely? That’s one thing. Nobody bats an eye if you tell them that you exterminate rats and cockroaches for a living. But someone who kills fluffies for fun, and drags it out, would look just as insane as someone who kills rats for fun.
You just never meet the right kind of friends irl but I understand the bullying makes it hard I was bullied too kids threw rocks at me dragging me up wooden play areas and threw me in ponds and I know violence is something not everyone can do and I was one for a good long time until iv had enough and went up to them and beat the living piss out of the ring leader after then they left me alone and whenever I see someone getting bullied I beat his ass and friended his victim I even protected the ed classes the teachers really liked me even though my methods were against school policy. As for fluffys iv heard about them from watching click on YouTube and thought they were entertaining and funny with the art that they were in as for my affliction with abusers it’s just entertaining to see and draw yes I do the occasional hug box or cuite or sweet but I just like the violence I mean my old profile pic was billy from jigsaw a franchise that I lov by the way)
Oh, absolutely.
Though in my headcanon i consider fluffies to be an invasive species and they are treated the way Australian treats rabbits. Rabbits in Australia - Wikipedia
Pets are off limits ferals are a free for all.
And you wil always have psycho’s getting off on killing rabbits or rats.
I used to be a sensitive little fuckface, but laughing at myself because of dumb (now long-since hidden) posts made me less so. @ripoffMcgee prolly remembers some of the stupid shit I tried to fight him for, aye! Just glad to be here.
Honestly, I get what Big Boop is saying, because I’ve been there. Pretty much everyone I thought was my friend either abandoned me or stabbed me in the back. I’m not feeling all too fond of humanity anymore, present company excluded. Most of you have been a lot nicer to me than I’ve come to expect from humanity, so I like you guys.
And yeah, I can relate to fluffies too. All they really want is to be loved and have a good life, who can’t relate to that? Again, honestly, if fluffies were real, I would get one and hugbox the 𝓕𝓤𝓒𝓚 out of the little fluffball.
I know about rabbits being a pest in Australia. But when they kill rabbits, they don’t drag it out, right? When someone’s got a rat problem, they put rat poison out, they don’t build a Rube-Goldberg machine that comically tortures the rat to death. When someone’s got a cockroach problem, they burn their house down and move as far away as possible, like any sane person would do.
So are rabbits in Australia, as you said, and I’m pretty sure the Aussies would still look down on someone who tortures them for shits and giggles. Hunting 'em? Sure. Trapping 'em. Fine and dandy. But torture? I doubt you could find a lot of sane people on board with that.
“Justified abuse” is a bit of an iffy concept, if you ask me. I mean, a man who beats his wife probably has his reasons, but does that justify it? Would anyone listen to his reasons?
The point is, killing an invasive species isn’t wrong, in and of itself. If someone’s just popping ferals with a gun, getting it over with quickly, that’s justifiable.
It’s when they start dragging it out that it crosses the line.
When someone’s got a rat problem, they put rat poison out, they don’t build a Rube-Goldberg machine that comically tortures the rat to death. When someone’s got a cockroach problem, they burn their house down and move as far away as possible, like any sane person would do.
Now this just gave me the mental image of someone making a Rube-Goldberg machine that tries to comically torture a cockroach to death, and failing due to the legendary resilience of cockroaches.
When it comes to justified abuse, I don’t think it’s that the readers are supposed to find it justified, but rather that the abuser thinks it’s justified. A better term for it might be “revenge abuse”, except sometimes the act they’re getting revenge for is “being part of overpopulation”.
I recently wrote a story that I think falls under this. I’m not judging. I think this kind of thing is key to characterization. The abusers of my stories have plenty of different reasons to do it, but for some of them, the reason is just “because they’re there”, and in those cases, it’s pretty clear that the character is too far gone. And probably not that far from getting bored of fluffies, if you catch my drift.