Sports hunting( Animal cruelty) - A Key To a Serial Mind

"I define cruelty as the deliberate infliction of suffering upon a sentient creature. That hunting is cruel is uncontestable. There is ample scientific evidence that all mammals experience, stress, terror, shock, anxiety, fear, trauma, foreboding, as well as physical pain. It is also deliberate in that those who hunt do so with the express aim of pursuing a creature to its death. Not all may witness the death, but those who participate can be in no doubt about the result, at least, for most of the hunted species. But cruelty is not just an intrinsically objectionable act; it is a token of moral meanness; a practical example of our failure to live generously after the example of Jesus. There is, as Cardinal Newman indicated, something so very dreadful, so satanic in tormenting those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power [and] who have weapons neither of offence or defence . And he concludes his consideration of the Christ-like innocence of animals with this appeal: Think, then, my brethren of your feelings at cruelty practised on brute animals, and you will gain one sort of feeling which the history of Christs Cross and Passion ought to excite within you. If Gods power in Christ was manifest in acts of sacrifical love, and a special solicitude exhibited towards the poor, weak and vulnerable, should not our power be so similarly directed?" Anonymous Is Trophy Hunting A Form of Serial Killing? www.garethpatterson.com



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