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 Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 7:19 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:34 pm
I'm scratching my head as to why the previous owner couldn't ditch their dog in a more traditional, less psychotic way.
Or like, take it to a shelter.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:50 am
Well, I rather think one needs a sense of morality in order to have an ability to be cruel. If an unthinking animal crushes another to death for no particular reason, it is not cruelty but simply a lack of awareness of it's surroundings. Similarly, a human totally lacking compassion, such as certain forms of retardation and aspbergers, can do things that to a normal human being
Cruelty requires that you know what you are doing is wrong but you do not care. For example, when I expound on semantics and disregard the thrust of the discussion, such as animal cruelty; I am being mildly cruel in that I am aware that this pedantic examination of the thread's title is an inappropriate response that might upset people, but I do not care.
Therefore, it is arguably necessary to be human in order to be cruel.
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