Sorry for the downvote Mr. Fisk. Here's another one that I down-voted. There are lots of explanations as to why in the comments section.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Scorpion-vs-Black-Widow-Intense-sheesh

No offense schmawy, amigo, although I read through the entire thread and the primary argument against these types of videos seem to consist of nothing more than a slippery slope logical fallacy.

If A happens, then by a gradual series of small steps through B, C,…, X, Y, eventually Z will happen, too.
Z should not happen.
Therefore, A should not happen, either.

True, there are some who found this sort of entertainment truly offensive, and voiced there thoughts/opinions alongside their downvote. However, I checked the upvote count and felt I could garner more upvotes and close the gap between gold and bronze. Also, I found this to be entertaining myself and enjoyed sharing this vid with the sift. Furthermore, the other bug fight from this same japanesebugfights.com did not attract the negativity of the one which you mentioned, and that was the one I used as a comparison to measure if I were crossing the line. In conclusion, I vividly recall the account of a elephant vs. rhinoceros in the historical fiction I, Claudius by Robert Graves, and if there were a video of that, I would be delighted to post it here as well. FYI, the elephant won. To me, it would be more entertaining than soccer. Unless it were that soccer-basketball-like sport the Aztecs played were the losing team were executed. But then again my sense of humor is as twisted as a Texas tornado.

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I'm glad you posted the link to the spider vs. scorpion fight, schmawy. I might not have found it otherwise, and I thought it was extremely interesting. Kinda like ninja vs. pirates, but with a verifiable result.

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I'm against these things being put on for our entertainment. If it happened in nature and was caught on tape then fine, but staged it's barbaric. You'd think we had evolved away from this.

That being said, scorpions don't fuck around. Stung the lobster in the freaking eye.. that's cold.

downvote for being counter to my personal values.
..I'm not saying that anyone else should downvote.. I just don't want to see this crap on the sift.

I guess what makes this cruel and unethical is that it's forced. If this were a nature video of insects fighting on their own in the wild, I might find it interesting. But as it is, to me this is about as distasteful as someone making a video of themselves tearing the legs of a scorpion. Just cruelty for cruelty's sake.

Who knew that scorpians would be so reluctant to use their stinger? If that was me, I would have been stabbing the shit out of that lobster thing!

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everyone on videosift is a fucking pussy.


there I said it...now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go take a bubble bath

Having the Pokemon battle theme made this work, imo.

fucking lol'd

Animal cruelty always gets the downvote from me. If you're gonna kill it to eat, do the job and get on with it. But if you're gonna kill it for your own amusement you probably need professional help.

Downvoted for forced fights. If it was by nature, I am OK then.

Best ... death ... ever!
- Comic Book Guy

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