On deliberate cruelty

“We are not like animals because we are in a cage, but we are in a cage because we are like animals.” Carnelutti Can there be such a thing as deliberate cruelty? That’s what they thought great generals like Julius Caesar and until recently the entire educational system he believed in redemptive punishment.

Regardless of everyone’s opinion, completely free to adhere to that large market of their own choosing, the truth is that every responsible parent experiences the debate firsthand. One’s conscience is torn apart from the moment one is immersed in this reality, and currents and teachings about parenting flow like Monsoon flood in bookstores and online. Introducing discipline is probably one of the most delicate tasks of today’s parents, especially when there are plenty of them ideas that frighten and threaten chronic harm that could allegedly be caused. In short, it is said that if man does not adapt to everything, then everything will eventually adapt to one, like those biofoulings that find a home under the hulls of ships.

I would like to think, therefore, that more than cruelty towards purpose, we could be present of strict education which avoids greater evils in those to whom it is imparted. What if a father, for example, leaves his little son’s minor misdeed unpunished? Something as innocent as stealing candy. Wouldn’t that parent give the child a signal that his behavior is justified and that the child is free to nurture it until it becomes a harmful habit? Wouldn’t it rather be a stern reprimand, followed by a gentle conversation with the child? Lack of firm prosecution and timely action could often prevent those habits so innocent in principle from becoming serious criminal behavior over time. And, like the chain that is tightly bound from link to link, conduct Neglected criminal activities also end with the awakening of the fundamental impulses of the beast that man has been pushing inside him for millennia.

The common criminal often behaves like an animal. There are thieves who, without any explanation, defecate in places where they steal; There are intruders who break into homes to commit theft that later ends up in rampant rape or cruel murder.

in them unfurl, like a blanket shaken by the wind, the most primal instincts of mammals, who remain beyond the reach of the law, who draw a flood of primitive behaviors that reason cannot understand and that the beast sometimes cannot control. Because, iron discipline well dosed in minors, by those who nurture and teach them, at a given moment it may be effective as a preventive medicine. That’s why those resocialization programs that, in the face of criminals who abuse animals, are by themselves completely useless, must be redirected.

The one who has committed a serious crime, pulled currents of animal cruelty, he cannot be treated only as a man who reviews and responds to treatment this to be; This baseless illusion must be dispelled very quickly. At that level of a beast cornered behind bars, it is not possible to redeem the spiritual emptiness that is already completely disfigured and that has trapped man in shaggy animal skin. That level of basic understanding of criminal behavior it would be cruel to see crimes of this kind treated from a perspective of understanding, without ever being deformed into a useless retribution governed by hatred and resentment. That basic understanding of man’s cruelty to animals, already stated Martin Luther King, if he fought hatred with only understanding and never with emotional attachment, it would make him review measures to fight crime and its intrinsic violence.