Intro: Google Blogger put this post behind a warning because the title includes the words ‘animal abuse’ (now changed as a consequence) but in this article there is no animal abuse whatsoever. The words are there but that is it. Typical of frightened, paranoid Google run by 25-year-old snowflakes. I moved the article to this website as a result. Bye, bye Google Blogger.
There are two (linked?) stories running side by side at present concerning British culture. The first is kids’ exposure to animal abuse on social media which inures them to animal abuse. It tends to normalise it and desensitize young people making it harder to educate young people about how to relate to animals in general.
Note: Sorry for presenting a bleak picture. It is not all bad of course but there is too much that is bad and the trend is concerning.
This comes from the RSPCA who said:
Children today are being exposed to shocking levels of animal cruelty. Nearly a quarter of school children aged 10-18 have witnessed animal cruelty and neglect on social media and a further 3% first hand.
I have banged on about how dangerous social media is in desensitizing people to animal abuse. The administrators of these internet platforms such as YouTube and TikTok (the worst perpetrators) simply don’t have a handle on the problem. They have policies against uploading animal abuse videos but they don’t have the manpower to enforce their policies.
Kids are gradually learning the wrong things about human interactions with animals which will slow progress in animal welfare.
Too much exposure to animal abusea and dishonesty by Michael BroadSecondly, a linked problem in Britain is that Brits – and I worry primarily about young Brits – are learning that honesty is no longer the best policy. Dishonesty is growing in the UK.
The British are growing increasingly tolerant of fraud and theft. This often concerns benefit fraud. The Department for Work and Pensions said that Britain’s “growing propensity to commit fraud” fuelled by a society increasingly tolerant of dishonesty was making it harder to control the cost of claimants ripping off the benefit system.
Benefit fraud is likely to rise by 5% a year. This is because of a broader social trend in which people are increasingly willing to cheat and steal. There is increased tax evasion and benefit fraud.
A study confirms this. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth measured the integrity of people. In 2011, the researchers found that 85% of respondents thought that falsely claiming benefits was never justified. In 2023 the comparable figure was 67%. About £7.4 billion a year is lost to benefit fraud in the UK.
UK is broken
Many people have mentioned that things just no longer work in the UK. There is a gradual erosion of the services that we expect and I would argue that what I have mention on this page runs in parallel to that erosion of societal standards. I mentioned this years ago actually. I can feel it.
Signs that UK society is breaking up in broken Britain
An important point is I do not see a way back. It’s got a mind of its own. And I think this erosion of values will feed through to the greater likelihood of world conflict which is already bubbling up under the surface with the Ukraine war, Israel’s war with Hamas and the potential war between China and Taiwan when China invades Taiwan to claim it as its own.
Social media must take the major responsibility for normalising animal abuse through videos uploaded (and not deleted by admin) by miscreant youngsters who take pleasure in abusing animals and then telling the world what they’ve done by videoing their crime and revelling in it.
Correlation
There is a correlation between animal abuse and dishonesty, although more research is needed to determine the exact nature of their relationship. Studies have shown that individuals who abuse animals often exhibit other antisocial behaviours, such as lying and stealing. Additionally, people who are dishonest in their interactions with others may be more likely to engage in animal cruelty.
It is important to note that not all people who abuse animals are dishonest, and not all dishonest people abuse animals. However, the two behaviours may be linked in some cases.
Some more
Here are some more about dishonesty in the UK. Shoplifting is rampant in the UK and the police pretty well do nothing about it. That has been going on for a long time. The police’s inactivity supports criminality. There’s been a large uplift in shoplifting which may suggest an increasing motivation to commit fraud/crime in order to ease financial pressure the DWP said. “Attitudes towards benefit fraud have softened” according to data from the British Social Attitudes survey.
The most recent data from that survey shows that 27% of participants said that it was “not wrong” or only “a bit wrong” for someone on unemployment benefits to take a cash-in-hand job without reporting it, up from 16% in 2016. Although 66% said this was wrong or seriously wrong, this was down from 80% eight years ago.
In the 12 months to March, the government lost about 2.8% of total welfare spending to fraud. This was higher than the previous year and double pre-pandemic levels.
——–
P.S. please forgive the occasional typo. These articles are written at breakneck speed using Dragon Dictate. I have to prepare them in around 20 mins.
