I find it similarly disturbing to hear of kids torturing animals, which apparently is/was kind of common? I've never done it myself and only knew one person wh

I find it similarly disturbing to hear of kids torturing animals, which apparently is/was kind of common? I've never done it myself and only knew one person who (as an adult) admitted to doing it as a kid, but apparently it is/was a thing. When I read that many serial killers tortured animals when they were young before moving on to attacking humans[1], it somehow didn't surprise me. The phenomenon reminds me of Hogarth's famous series of engravings on "The Four Stages of Cruelty"[2], which starts by showing children torturing animals in the streets of Eighteenth-century London. It's appalling to me that this sort of behavior was ever tolerated. [1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/magazine/13dogfighting-t.html https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/magazine/13dogfighting-t.... [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Stages_of_Cruelty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Stages_of_Cruelty