I'm inclined to think I'd have had qualms about the welfare of the gulls as a child too, I don't think that's an adult-learned-worry. Killing the aunts seemed extreme, but that is almost certainly something I'd have ignored/brushed over as a kid. The gulls though... I was one of those kids who passed around petitions to try to get all my relatives and the school to stop using plastic ring 6 pack holders and stuff, for fear of wild animals getting tangled in them. The whole 500+ gulls with nooses thing would have been super cringe-worthy as a child. (as it is as an adult)