I saw a commercial today for one of the humane societies, asking people to donate. The picture portrayed a terribly abused little mixed dog with his eyes swollen shut. Whenever I see pictures like that it breaks my heart and at the same time makes me incredibly angry. I don’t get it. What kind of human being has it within himself to torture another being. I don’t care if we are talking animals or children, women, or other men. I just do not understand what happens in the brain of a person who beats a living creature half to death; unprovoked and for no apparent reason.
I always chuckle when I hear how the human race is regarded as the most intelligent and evolved on this planet. And yet, only humans kill for fun or hurt for fun. Animals, considered less evolved than us kill for survival and food. Isn’t it amazing how a less evolved species does not violate life as easily as we do?
Every time I see pictures of abused children or animals I want to ask the people who did it why. No, I do not feel a need to beat them in return, I just want to throw them in a prison cell and lose the key forever. I understand how psychologically certain behaviors come about in theory, but then I just can’t grasp it in practice. I am not even able to raise my hand to slap someone. Somehow hitting is not something I can muster. I don’t understand how these lines are being crossed by those who beat others half to death. I want to know what happens from the time the thought travels from the brain to the fist or hand of a torturer, murderer, rapist, child molester and so on. I want to know where the humanity of such a person goes. I want to know if they are completely void of pity, sympathy or remorse.
I fail to understand how they do it, and I fail to understand what qualifies them as human beings and an evolved species.
