User blog comment:Tony 1998/GTA V Controversy Part II: Torture Sequence, Animal Cruelty and So On.../@comment-34814-20130926055333/@comment-5163932-20130926122943

I agree with this a lot, especially the hunting part, hell I mentioned something like that myself in my last post on here.

it seems sometimes people pick on GTA simply because it is GTA. Its an easy target for people to criticize and make themselves look like good moral guardians. Its kind of sick as well how people use real life stabbings and killings just to target video games. VGs don't make people evil, they would have to have it in them to begin with, though I think some minors and toddlers can be influenced because of their capacity to copy what they see but those are kids and should not be watching or playing the game anyway.

The torture scene was not done in a hilarious way, possibly to intentionally make the player uncomfortable and make a subtle anti-torture message.