[ SECRET POST #2954 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2954 ⌋

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[Phineas & Ferb]


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[Roger Delgado]


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(Dangan Ronpa)


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[All Time Low]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It wasn't "for no explained reason". It was because it was a sickly stray kitten that the family really didn't have the resources to support. A lot of people kill unwanted animals, thinking it's better than leaving them out in the wild to starve or be eaten.

It's not something I agree with at all, but it's not "meaningless animal murder, yey!".

It really doesn't have much to do with being poor; I've known middle-class people that murdered innocent unwanted domesticated animals too. Likewise, there are homeless people that will go without food so that their pet can have food.

[(Anonymous)]

No, nothing was explained in the book. Katniss did not have to kill a stray cat that wasn't her responsibility in the first place.

And if she had wanted to give him a merciful death, drowning is NOT how she would have done it. She knows perfectly well how to kill animals quickly, yet she opted to give the kitten an excruciating death.

It's kind of weird that you'd defend this. No one ever said "it's a poor people thing" or that middle class people aren't cruel to animals. But it IS a despicable thing. If you're going to eat the cat, fine, kill it quickly. If you're putting it out of its misery, kill it quickly. Drowning it? Fuck you, no matter how unfortunate your circumstances are.

(not to mention, a cat, of all domestic pets, is by far best suited to take care of itself.)

[(Anonymous)]

But people drowning unwanted cats was sort of an accepted thing for a long time--I think it's more like a trope than Katniss picking it for sadistic reasons. It comes up in, let's see, Sandman at least once, Louisa May Alcott, referenced at least once in Diana Wynne Jones, a major plot point in Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog, and that's literally off the top of my head. I hate reading about it, to be sure, but I think it's much more likely a variation on that then a specific moment of thought-out sadism.