Contents:
- Medical Video: 5 Crazy Facts About Psychopaths!
- Two types of animal torture
- Animal torture can be an indication of the psychopathic nature
- People who like to torture animals have a tendency to hurt humans without sympathy
Medical Video: 5 Crazy Facts About Psychopaths!
Indonesia was shocked by the case of a man with the initials VTS. Because, VTS uploads photos selfiewith a monkey hunted. It appears that apes whose blood-stained nose is holding back pain and seems to be alive. The day before, Indonesia was shocked with the case of a college student in Jember. The female student hunted three forest cats that were clearly rare animals. There are more trends that have had time booming on the Internet. Cats in bottles are able to melt hearts netizens with cuteness from the faces of the cats in the bottle. But, do you know that this action is a form of animal torture?
The torture of these animals is not merely a human way of showing dominance, but there is something more latent than that.
Two types of animal torture
Before going further about the latent hazards that can be revealed from animal torture, it's good to study the types of animal torture. According to Canadians for Animal Welfare Reform, or often abbreviated as CFAWR, there are two types of animal torture, active cruelty and passive cruelty. Active cruelty is a form of torture with the aim of hurting animals, whereas passive cruelty is a form of torture without purpose, such as forgetting to give food or drink to pets, for a long time.
E. Buckles, D. N. Jones, and D. L. Paulhus in 2013 conducted a study to see sadistic behavior in everyday life. A total of 78 psychology students were included in this study. The respondents were asked to fill in several questionnaires that could measure sadistic properties, dark triad (Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy), and a measure of respondents' disgust for various things. Besides that, there is Yes-or-No Question which needs to be filled to find out the fear of insects. Finally, respondents were asked to fill out a questionnaire adjective-rating measure.
First of all, respondents were asked to choose several jobs; kill insects (category: pest control), help experimenters kill insects (categories: pest control), clean toilets, and hold ice (a job done in a cold place). Of the 78 respondents (but only 71 data can be processed because 7 of them were not recorded), 12.7% chose to hold ice, 33.8% chose to clean the toilet, 26.8% chose to help experimenters kill insects, and 26.8% chose to kill insects . In pest killers, respondents have a high sadistic behavior score. Another surprising result is that respondents with high sadistic behavioral scores felt pleasure in torturing animals. From this study, it can be concluded that sadism is a factor that can be predicted by the act of torturing animals.
Animal torture can be an indication of the psychopathic nature
This is reinforced by a study conducted by Dr. Phillip Kavanagh and colleagues. Torture of animals can also indicate that someone has traits Dark Triad (Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy). The thing Dr. wanted to prove by Phillp Kavanagh reflected in his study. This study states that the nature of psychopathies is related to one's intentions of intentionally hurting animals.
There is real evidence in life, namely that many serial killers, such as Jeffrey Dahmer, began his murderous career in his childhood by killing animals, collecting animals that had died, mutilating, and masturbating before the animals he had cut into previously. Mary Bell, a murderer whose child was a victim, claimed to have strangled a dove to death in his childhood.
People who like to torture animals have a tendency to hurt humans without sympathy
It can be concluded that animal torture tends to be carried out by people with high based sadism scores 10-item Short Sadistic Impulse scale. Torture of animals in childhood tends to produce adults with Dark Triad type psychopathy. In addition, torture in animals is an indication of someone being exposed Antisocial Personality Disorder, which is a personality disorder that makes sufferers tend to be apathetic towards prevailing norms. Dark Triad type psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder can produce a tendency to not only hurt animals, but be able to hurt humans without the sympathy and empathy that arises afterwards.
So, recognize your loved one. Also shape your child to be a child full of empathy and sympathy. Love them rightly they are loved. Although after this disorder is formed it is difficult to completely eliminate the possibility (marked by the return of the prisoners back to committing the same crime), but the help of your hands can reduce their tendency to commit crimes. It should also be remembered that the formation of a human personality is very complex, one disorder may consist of several indications and backgrounds that are unique to every human being.
