Rant on Abuse

The radical individualism of American society has me one more bad day from sucking off a 12 gauge to completion. It creates cowardly people who are terrified of having any moral conviction out of fear of retribution.

I returned from maternity leave to find out that my boss had beaten an animal in our care to the point where it lost a significant number of teeth. This beating was wholly unnecessary and was witnessed by a coworker, but they refused to report it because they were scared of retaliation.

This is cowardice. This is moral weakness. It should not matter the potential consequences, it should not matter if it will even work, you do the right thing because it’s the fucking right thing to do. These animals can’t fucking speak up when they’re mistreated. If you are supposed to care for them, and you refuse to report abuse, you are just as bad as the perpetrator. It’s selfish and it puts the onus on me to report something I wasn’t even there for. Not because I think my evil manager will get fired (he should- he probably won’t, I despise him), but because, if I don’t, it would otherwise be open season on beating the rest of our collection.

I have a lot to lose too, but I have fucking self-respect and moral clarity; I couldn’t look myself in the mirror if I didn’t try to hold him accountable.

This is indicative of the moral decay in America. Everyone is beaten down, pacified, scared to rock the boat and lose what little security they do have. It’s truly pathetic. It’s not noble to tolerate injustice because you have mouths to feed- we all got fucking mouths to feed. I’m so sick of spineless sycophants rolling over to let ruthless scumbags get away with bloody murder. We live in a country that rewards complicity in all sorts of atrocities, and it boils my fucking blood. We deserve a reckoning, all of us.

sorry to rant on the feed. I just had to get it out because i’m going insane. feel free to criticize, i know im breaking the “just be normal” golden rule.