In article <1992Dec15.151108.20973@spectrum.xerox.com> eradm@wbst845e.xerox.com writes:
>Once, as a child, I scooped up the fattest tadpoles I could find in the local brook. I squished them under my thumb so I could watch the entrails squirt out.
I recently learned that Jeffery Dahmer had done the same kind of thing when he
was young.
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Yes, as I understand it, systematic abuse of animals while young is an early
symptom of potentially psychotic behaviour later in life, or something like
that. Many of our most prolific murderers spent their childhoods setting
cats on fire, killing dogs with bricks and then keeping the bodies in their
secret clubhouse, etc.
So remember: When you are someday arrested on suspicion of multiple murders,
deny that you abused animals as a child. "Yes, officer, I understand my
rights, and I never abused animals as a kid, okay?" That's all you have to
