Interesting question (to me at least)

[Guest guest]

I have been considering a question since

yesterday when this horrific event happened up in Connecticut. Two lifelong criminals

broke into a doctor’s house and beat his children and his wife, beat him,

raped his daughter. and eventually kept this up throughout the night before

they killed the family (except the doctor is in critical condition), stole

things, and fled the house. The daughter had been a champion of

fund-raising for MS, since her mother had it, and was due to go to Dartmouth College. The younger daughter was the

one that was raped, I think.

People are calling these two poor excuses for

human beings “animals”. That gave me pause because I wanted

to do that at first. Then I thought, “True, animals kill each other

for things that they perceive they need to survive.” What I’m

thinking is, would animals beat and torture other animals over a long period of

time for the enjoyment of it before killing the other animal to take what they

wanted? If not, should these two men be called “animals”?

Then I thought of the housecat. I have watched my own housecat in the

past worrying a small toy mouse to death for hours. I think this behavior

might go on in the wild with the big cats. If this is true, as far as I

understand it would be a similar enjoyment of killing the animal before

actually killing it. Would that make these two evildoers up in Connecticut “animals”?

I honestly do not know the answer to this and

just brought it up here to see what you thought.

Cyn