Do you have the guts?

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Ok, in fiction everything is hihi haha hoho, I killed this disgusting or useless but (almost all the time) harmless creatures.

But in reality, would you be able to kill a fluffy?

I mean, probably everyone would kill one by accident because they are so dumb and careless, also weak as hell, but would you have the guts to kill a foal, a pregnant mare, or just a adult fluffy just for fun?

Imagine have the chance to receive a full hend: a male, a mare, two cheerping foals (probably one sensitive), a three talking foals (a bestest babbeh, a dancing one and a poopie babbeh).

Personal position: I don’t see them like animals, the only idea to have a tiny horses able to talk and being rude in some cases (just have a besti babbeeh and two adult that threat one of the foals as shit just because is brown or green or any “no pretty” color is disgusting), plus the idea that are basically mutants, biotoys and beings designed to suffer… Probably doesn’t make me feel guilty or have remorse.

Obviosly is just an hypothetical situation and, in reality, if I kill one I will start to feel bad or sick, or even disappointed of myself, maybe not, again, cause I have the idea that they are not things that shouldn’t supposed to exist.

(Also, I keep the poppie one just to experiment if I could improve its intelligence, also because, poor shitrat, wouldn’t deserve being treated like that just because is not a pretty one).

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In real life there’s no way this wouldn’t be labelled as animal abuse, the biotoy thing is just for writing purposes, so no, I wouldn’t want to harm them IRL even if they’re considered pests. They didn’t ask to be created and it would make me feel sick to my stomach to hurt another thing that can feel pain

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The thing is how many groups start to labelled like demons, or abominations, plus if is real that they are made of some plastic, more contamination. Its… Some kind of difficult question at the end because they wouldn’t be animals at all, even if they could suffer, people could believe on them like sorr kind of IA too.

When does ethics end?

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If i like it, ill get it.
Then a relation with em would be “Action/Reaction” based.

If they do something bad by accident, its ok, mistakes are normal thing.
But if they do bad on purpose ill either punish em or get rid of em depending how grave the act is.

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I don’t think I’d be able to torture or kill fluffies if they were real, no.

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Anyone who says they would harm a fluffy irl needs to have their cranium measured and their frontal lobe promptly excised through their nose.

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You should work on that

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You can’t try and ascribe real world values to something of pure fiction.

Likewise, if you ascribe your fictional values to a real-world equivalent, you’re a monster and need to be put down.

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.>would you have the guts to kill a foal, a pregnant mare, or just a adult fluffy just for fun?
Nah, I feel bad even killing a bug.

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Well said

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I…don’t see that as “having the guts,” honestly. It’s not brave or confident to purposely harm someone weaker than we are. If fluffies were real it would never cross my mind, or the minds of anyone i know personally and willingly associate with, to harm one on purpose. I would not want to be acquainted with a person who would willingly hurt not only a living creature but one that can speak and express emotions the same way our children do.

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no, obviously not! fluffies (and the abuse we inflict on them) are an artistic metaphor for our most despised parts of humanity. if they were literal talking animals that people kept as pets, not only would they be COMPLETELY different, but nobody would WANT to hurt them.

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Dude, I killed a frog when I was in the boy scouts and still hate myself because I did that. The poor bastard was the size of a communion wafer, and I gutted him with a fucking hook so I could catch catfish. I murdered him. I took that poor animal and I fucking killed it for no reason that I didn’t even catch any fish with him.

So no. I couldn’t.

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The thing probably most unrealistic about our headcanons is humans not having massive amounts of mental damage from hearing something saccharine being able to vocalize its pain and suffering in a human language, with the same intonations and motivations as a child. Part of what probably shocks people the most on first contact with the Fluffy Community is that it’s essentially depicting the torture and brutalization of child-coded things.

But who gives a fuck - it’s a fictional playground for those emotions and feelings.

I think the point of the headcanons are to justify things by saying “Yeah, people just lost their empathy” and that’s an (unintended) side-effect of Fluffies being such a persistent problem with no other “solution” besides cruelty.

I don’t know if the lack of consequences would be the only thing that would absolve me of the guilt of killing a Fluffy. I have pigeons landing on my balcony all the time, and despite chasing them away, sometimes they build up enough of a nest to lay an egg. I say a little prayer for it before rolling it off the balcony to its doom; I hate doing it, but at the same time, I can’t reason with the pigeon, and I probably couldn’t reason with a Fluffy. If I let the pigeon nest, there’s real chance of damage to the area, and they come to view it as a “permanent” safe place. This is perhaps why “fluffies as an invasive species” is one of my favorite aspects of the fandom.

I don’t think I could abuse a Fluffy, because it seems like a massive waste of time, resources and clean clothes. I also think I might struggle with begging Fluffies in the city, the same way you struggle with “certain” homeless - if they look threatening or they don’t hit your empathy in the right way, you don’t give a shit. But sometimes, a homeless person (especially with a dog, or a kid) hits that “fuck man, I’m so sorry you had to go through this” and I imagine that nuance with be there when dealing with Fluffies, too.

They still have “sentience” though in the sense they could talk. There’s a reason why the Bugs in Starship Troopers don’t talk, or zombies don’t talk: the burden of humanity is that we have the ability to empathize, and it’s very rare that the things we empathize with have the ability to give feedback so directly. That communication means that we’re kind of obligated to not slaughter them indiscriminately.

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No,I would feel incredibly guilty hurting them.
But I do want to go to restaurants that serve their meat if they are real.

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Nah, we nowadays are not wired to brutally murder living beings like that, even if they were pests like rats or cockroaches. The last time I killed something that was more than a fly, I hesitated for a long time before I made the decision to stomp the shit out of it.

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I mean, given the fact that we have scientific ethics boards irl debating the morality of creating genetically modified creatures in the vein of wooly mice right now or even toothed and long tailed chickens a few years back I highly doubt that a project to create something like a Fluffy would ever get green lit, even if pitched as “bio toys”. It would be considered unethical to the Fluffy to even let them exist just to serve as a commodity that can be neglected or abused. It’s the same ethical and moral issue that crops up in media like Jurassic park and even certain AI robotics pieces such as West World, there’s a certain level of empathy that needs to be given to beings that didn’t ask to be made for human whims and unlike the prior two examples Fluffies are exponentially more pathetic and harmless, even if they can be annoying. If we find ourselves sympathizing and rooting for a T-Rex that has an actual human body count or entirely synthetic beings that for all intents and purposes are a product of preprogrammed behavior more than a Fluffy ever would be, being confronted with Fluffies in real life would absolutely never become an abuse fantasy land. Never.

Abusers of Fluffies would be seen in the same light as those who grievously harms children and/or animals. It’s that simple. Any anyone who thinks that they could or would anyways should probably take a step back from here and do some self reflecting.

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I don’t think I’d be able to raise that herd family. Just give me one li’l guy, that’s enough. I don’t have the knowledge to raise a sensitive or bestest or poopie properly.

But hurting a fluffy, on purpose? Nope. I couldn’t. Killing one is straight out of the question, even if it’s a pest and wrecking my stuff I’d go for the no-kill traps.

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Nope.

Wouldn’t have the heart for it. I once had to put down a sick woodchuck and I was upset about it for almost a week after.

I mean, I live in the countryside, I kill pests sometimes, but that’s different. It’s one thing to plug a squirrel with a .22, it’s another to kill something that’s begging for it’s life and actually helpless. Plus, I actually have a reason for doing it.

Hell, sometimes I don’t even have it in me to kill the squirrels. I’m not one to have reservations about killing animals, but I really don’t enjoy it and try to do it sparingly.

So no, I wouldn’t kill fluffies without a good reason, and I’d try to avoid it even then.

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Killing for fun: NO
Killing for a reason(Job,smarty invasion,…) YES
And no i woud not feel bad if i had a reason, if accidental kill then yes.

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