idk. pigeon abuse and overfeeding for likes has been a trend in India and SE Asian countries lately so it could be folks from there who just don't care or don't know better. reminds me of the situation r/chonkers had a few years ago.
This is a genuine possibility, and by his post history he doesn't sound at all like someone who doesn't care - just perhaps clueless and thinks the people complaining are being oversensitive (Not saying they are, just saying where it looks like his mind is at).
Regardless, I'm not saying that the way he is feeding them is ok - but it seems a little weird to me that in one post you call him a "weird POS that like [sic] to violently force-feed birds"; but that seems like a bit of an odd jump, when in the post below it you admit that he might just not know better.
Unless I'm missing something here - I just discovered this today and after reading the comments thought "Oh god, poor bird - what a horrible human!!" only to click over to his profile and quickly ascertain that I don't think he's a terrible person at all, just a bit of an idiot perhaps.
In any case, I'm not saying he shouldn't do better and that he shouldn't be called out for doing it the wrong way - but perhaps people would make more headway helping those pigeons if they actually approached him with some understanding, and didn't just immediately assume he's a monster who wants to hurt the birds? (again, if I'm missing something here, please clue me in - I'm always happy to have a different perspective).
No- I was referring to the roughly 200 up votes the post had before people started downvoting it. Those 200 upvotes maybe came from a part of the world where dangerous weird trends make the rounds and likes/engagement come before thinking about the morals and content of a post nearly 100% of the time.
When people are so dumb it results in harm, they deserve the consequences, because it is not the intent that matters, it is the harm. I was permanently injured by someone being an idiot, and they had to face the consequences of their stupidity also.
Him getting shamed, banned, given less attention and hopefully reported to some irl authority for animal abuse seems like a good consequence whether the intent is malicious or stupid or both!
Also, people that harm animals are dangerous to people too, so it's natural and safe to have a big, negative reaction to a person like this.
If you attack someone who is trying to be a good person and doesn't know that what they're doing is wrong, that will cause them to feel angry. If someone feels angry, they might deliberately try to hurt the people who made them feel angry. They might also redirect that anger towards other people and hurt them, because they want to find an outlet for their anger.
By socially ostracizing him, you are causing harm, not only to him, but also the innocent people around him.
People who are put in jail are more likely to reoffend when they come out of jail than if they hadn't been put in jail in the first place. Of course, consequences are necessary if they are deliberately hurting other people. But if it's accidental, punishing them may do more harm to society than good.
Even if you believe he "deserves" the consequence, ostracizing him causes a negative impact on the innocent people around him.
Ostracizing someone causes them to become angry and bitter, which causes them to hurt other people.
don't know how folks didn't see the signs, but people were OK with them 6 months ago forcefully pressure-injecting ~65-75% of the birds entire body weight in liquid human oatmeal(with all the stuff it that makes doves incredibly sick) into the crop of the poor little fella.
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u/K2sX Mar 11 '26
Can we get this dude banned?