There's absolutely nothing wrong with having strong morality. I think it's perfectly acceptable discourse.

You had to go and make things weird.

Yeah rodents have interesting behavior like that. They have absolutely no qualms eating a friend or their own offspring if they need the resources.

I once had two mice. The next morning, I still had two mice, but one of them was missing its head.

Why wouldnt it be real? Plenty of kids do this kind of "playing" with animals ask people how many pets they had as a kid.

Maybe most people here think its bad but in general people dont see it as a failure of the parent. I can see how you would think its grandstanding and it wasnt my intention. I was just trying to give a sane reply to a cruel post.

Like your intellectual grandstanding is better by even an iota.

This comment section is a trip.

It's just par for the course on lemmy/the fediverse. Keep an eye for common conversations featuring, "I think your comment proving your morality isn't enough, here's how you could be even more!"

Idk why this place isl Ike this. Every damn comment section.

When I was 9 I (and my friends) considered having "battles" where we hit each other with sticks to be one of the best ideas we've ever had. Our solution when a kid nearly got got hit in the eye with a willow switch ... was to ban willow switches.

We also jumped out of trees using a trash bag as a parachute. Luckily we had just enough sense to jump just under the "break a leg" height.

Some parents fail in moments, fact of life. No point arguing with it. You're telling me it's shocking that a kid who goes to 4chan has parents who slip up? I'm shocked. This is my shocked face: O.O Whaa? Parents of a kid who goes on 4chan makes... mistakes? Incredible. I would have never believed it true!

We caught the mouse on our attic, by luring them into a moveable plastic bath tub. Then we apparently overfed them, so most of them ended up dieing because they got stuck in the toys, which mainly was cardboard rolls from paper towel

There's only one way to settle this

A wise man once said:

You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes

If everybody is a sob you are the sob

How else are we going to teach the kids responsibility?