Animal Abuse?

[maggiekarp]

So, my brother decided to not let my 5-year-old sister win against him on Halo 2, so he could train up for his Halo2 tournament tomorrow. I told him that would be like training for a street brawl by punching a sack full of kittens.

So I thought, "Hey, that'd make a funny little cartoon. A straight-from-anime tough guy training for the fight of his life, but he uses a sack full of kittens as a punching bag."

Then I remembered that many internet people I know thought that just putting a hat on a cat was animal abuse on the same level as skinning a cat alive and taking pictures. Well, okay, maybe not that much.. but they kinda hoped the stuff-on-cats people would be arrested like the cat-skinny guy was.

So, when does fun end and animal abuse again? Is art harmful? Should people get a sense of humor?