Unnecessary cruelty

I agree with what Mick Hartley says:

[W]hat perplexes me is the way people get so outraged about those who campaign against animal cruelty - and we're not talking about animal lib nutters here, just cases like this where we can all agree that unnecessary cruelty is involved. What's the problem? It's not a zero-sum game, where any outrage against animal cruelty automatically detracts from campaigns against people cruelty.

Exactly. It isn't as if feelings of revulsion at cruelty - any cruelty - can be switched on and off at will, anyway. There can be debate about priorities and about the most effective ways of trying to remedy different forms of suffering, of trying to combat injustices of one kind and another. But given how much there is of both the one and the other, the main thing is that people try to make a difference for the better somewhere. There is, unfortunately, more than enough to go round.