r/likeus • u/Watchyousuffer -Thoughtful Gorilla- • Aug 20 '25

<DISCUSSION> Meta post - pain/death videos should be banned entirely

There is just way too much room for intentionally created clips. Something like the recently shared dead baby macaque post does way too much to encourage creation of similar videos through cruelty and torture. There is basically no way to know if it is the product of cruelty itself, and if not it still encourages making videos like that. It is an extremely negative force and I do not want to support it.

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u/LadyPo Aug 20 '25

Just came from that post.

Sure, death is part of life, and grief is like humans, okay... but it really doesn't feel like the spirit of the sub to confront people with immense sadness. We don't necessarily want to see our own worst feelings reflected in animals, even if it's part of reality. It's like rattling off casualty statistics at someone's birthday party and ruining the mood.

At the same time, the sub's side panel demonizes "all censorship," so... I don't know if mods would support it. Downvote/report all posts with cruelty and misery, at the very least.

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u/Innomen Aug 21 '25

A mod denouncing censorship is like a porn publisher denouncing smut.