This Fellow Rips Lee Stroebel A New Asshole

[The Grand Nudger]

IKR?  To be fair..sometimes it probably would.  My kids love to watch shitty things happen to the coyote.  CS Lewis, ever the clever indocrtinator, ritually kills aslan as an intentional analog to christ.  Regardless of whether you take that for it's intended theme or consider it a representative of secular fantasy, it's a kids book.  

I suppose the point here is that kids are cruel, violent sub-human works in progress who would squeal in delight if you blew up a cartoon puppy, and I bet more than a few would love to watch barney get lynched.  It doesn't get much better for our species with age, either.

Yes and? I liked Bugs Bunny or the sheep dog kicking the shit out of the scammer/bully. But first off it is a cartoon, nobody turned that into a religion.

Silence Heretic!

Secondly in the secular west we don't get to take the law into our own hands and while we might feel a sense of relief that a tormentor got stopped, revenge is an old tribal idea from antiquity, even in polytheism. 

Yes kids are cruel, but so what, as an adult it doesn't excuse adult violence. If our species is to survive we need to focus less on who pisses us off as adults and more on diplomacy. If we all got to silence others over things we would rather not hear, there is not one person on the face of the planet that could not think of something they don't like hearing. Kids have an excuse, and most kids dont have weapons at 2 or 3 or even 5 years old. Adults pass down their tribal bullshit.

I didn;t realize we were excusing any violence, you'd commented on whether or not the story would work with peter cottontail strung up instead  Well, kids are pretty gruesome..so even though we'd like to say no, the answer is probably yes, imo.