AIBU to let this one detail make me never want to speak to this person again

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I have known a friend of dp's for years now. nice guy, friendly, calls for tea, helps dp out a lot .. but in conversation yesterday spoke of how he once swerved to purposely hit a rabbit. he laughed. I showed my disgust, I said "I cant believe you did that, you think that's ok?" he looked embarrassed and said "well I wouldn't be insured if I damaged my van trying to avoid him" etc and making excuses. that was not what he said to begin with. I love animals ... loathe any cruelty to any animals and teach my son the same.

aibu to not look at him the same again. its changed my whole opinion of him. is that silly?

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No not silly. I still think differently of my FIL for what he would hypothetically do on a game show! There are some things you can't unthink.

If he did it on purpose he's vile. If he thought it was safer to hit the rabbit than to swerve then it was a sensible decision.

Bernies come on share it.

There's a big difference between avoiding dangerous swerving to avoid an animal deliberately swerving to hit it*

I always try to safely avoid animals if I can but one on a dual carriageway had no choice but to run over two dogs that dashed across in front of me. There were cars behind & on my inside & I was doing 70mph. Horrible & I'm not even much of a dog lover

I'd be disappointed if I discovered something like this about a friend

Have to admit it would put me off a person as well. I don't think I would stop speaking to them over it but I'd make my disgust clear and would always remember that fact about them.

He deliberately swerved to ensure he hit a rabbit. What a knob. YANBU.

I think he's a complete twat by the sounds, and certainly someone I'd have fuck all to do with.

Yanbu

Not silly at all. I loathe animal cruelty and that's what this guy boastfully admitted to.

Very curious Bernie's.

No this would put me right off, it indicates a cruel streak.

It depends on the situation, before now dh has run over a duck as the options were:

1.) Swerve into a ditch

2.) Swerve into a car on other side of road

3.) Run over poor duck and hope it dies instantly.

We went with 3 but felt awful about it.

Laughing about it is horrid and I hope you made him feel rubbish about his humour.

I'd give him a swerve. Tosser.

My dh stopped our car once -to put a poor bunny in the final stages of mixie out of it's misery.

He swerved in order to hit an animal. Lovely.

So animal cruelty is okay in his view?

I wouldn't want to associate with someone who did this and admitted it.

He sounds like a prat for telling someone he did it never mind actually doing it.

To delight in killing a living being is not a very nice trait. So I don't think you're being unreasonable.

Okay sorry I have reread op - disregard my previous post

he is a cunt. Fact

If he really did swerve to kill the rabbit he's an arse. If he just said he did it (as a joke) he's even more of an arse. I wouldn't personally feel the need to cut him out of my life, but he would have dropped significantly in my estimation when he said what he said.

he said he did it on purpose. Made him feel all god like did it? Killing something that couldn't defend itself. It's one thing to hit an animal when you can't help it - it's another thing to go out of you way to do it. This man is a knob

I don't believe him. I think he was just attempting to tell a 'funny' story and misjudged it. I imagine he simply hit it because he couldn't avoid it. Just put him down as a bit immature rather than a psychopath.