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Right.... teach kids that torturing animals is okay and desensitize them. This should end well. We definitely don't have enough mass-killings in society today.

• biff 13y ago
  People used to worry kids ripping wings off of houseflies weren't right in the head. Budding aerospace engineers cheated of their true potential because no U.S. company had the ingenuity to market $100 wing scissors?
  • ck2 13y ago
    Are you saying some kids are born psychopaths? Or that marketeers are? I've observed both ways, where the kids were far more sane than the parents, and then there are kids that turn out evil despite the best parents.
    • biff 13y ago
      Genetics and environment each play a part, I suppose, but cruelty can be a learned behavior. The price point means this is more likely to be used by people who will take it seriously, but it just struck me as a particularly ghoulish piece of kit to put next to the microscope and chemistry set. I read "A Father's Story" not too long ago, so maybe that doesn't help the cause. On the other hand, most of us had at least a couple dissections under our belt by high school, and it wasn't like those critters willingly offered themselves up towards our erudition, either. A practical education in science did seem to involve doing things we could have just read about in books, even if it caused a few nitric acid stains here and there and dozens of fetal pigs to lay down their lives, so maybe I'm being too quick to judge. Now, are marketeers in general psychopaths? I don't think it's a hard and fast rule...
• 001sky 13y ago
  The Michigan-based company has even received emails saying the the backpack - known as Roboroach - "teaches kids to be psychopaths". Have to say, I think I agree.