We have such a conflicting/hypocritical/strange morality when it comes to the treatment of pets or animals.
Throwing a cat in a dumpster could be viewed as morally worse because it is cruel for the sake of cruelty. Whereas dumping puppies in a river is cruel with an end purpose that arguably justifies it. Kind of like torturing a rat that lives in your garage is unacceptable, whereas killing a rat that lives in your garage is not.
We are strange indeed.
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