cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/48479776
Two pet dogs were left locked inside an apartment for about a week with no food or water after ICE agents detained their owner and didn’t report the animals’ presence to any authority, according to videos on social media.
The dogs reportedly watched federal agents take their owner away in Oklahoma last January, reports the Daily Beast. The agents left without notifying animal control, leaving the pets trapped for days with nothing to eat or drink.
I find it wild that people find it easier to get angry enough to care about 2 dogs than for almost half a million human beings, but I don’t disagree. We are a mentally really messed up people.
I’ve read the writers of John Wick introduced the dog as the plot motivator because just having his wife killed wasn’t emotionally investing enough for audiences to “justify” (or buy into) the revenge rampage. The dog did a better job at immediately establishing the villians as irredeemably monstrous.
There’s something about the innocence of animals that sets people off big time.
Certainly triggers the LAPD.
Animals have no capacity for evil, and therefore they win. Also, people have a hard time thinking about death tolls in large numbers, they kind of just become white noise. Half a million people dead is too many to thinking about all at the same time and retain your sanity. Most people choose sanity.
I would agree if you said they lack any sort of universal morality.
I would agree if you said they lack the tools for the sort of industrial scale applications of evil that humans do.
I would agree if you said there is a perception of “innocence”.
But animals absolutely have the capacity, capabilities and sometimes “desire” for “evil” as defined by people.