As my neighbors have been forcing me to smell the tortured flesh of animals cooking for hours now, I realized that there have been countless unpunished crimes committed against animals. If one hired a hitman to kill one's wife or husband, the law deems that to be a serious crime that should be punished accordingly. But that's exactly what people are doing when they buy meat. They are paying someone to kill animals. It should be a crime: a serious one. However, the way animals are treated, like in factory farms, before they are murdered makes it a far worse crime than hiring a hitman to kill a person. At least the victim of a hitman is free to live their life the way they want to before they are murdered. Animals are confined, and treated, very cruelly prior to their murders.
What's even worse is extreme cruelty against animals is so commonplace, that these meat-eating monsters don't even think they're doing anything wrong. The animals they eat, and, by extension, terrorize, must mean absolutely nothing to them. They're out of sight and out of mind. As long as I'm not being treated like that, I don't care. Maybe that's what they're thinking, if they're even thinking anything about the animals they're killing. They throw meat in the trash without a second thought. I don't know if there will ever be an antidepressant powerful enough to allow me to be content to live in a world that's full of sociopaths.
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