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Animal Cruelty and Psychiatric Disorders

A study of psychiatric patients who had repeatedly tortured dogs and cats has shown that all of them also had high levels of aggression towards people. This will highly endanger the safety of the people in the society, which is infiltrated by animal abusers and potential serial killers. History is filled with stories of notorious murderers who started their murderous careers by abusing animals. One such killer is Patrick Sherrill, who killed fourteen employees where he previously worked and then shot himself. He was known to have abused and killed pets and then releasing his own dog on them to mutilate them. .
             Another example is Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler" who killed thirteen women. In his youth, he began torturing and killing dogs and cats in crates by shooting them with arrows. These are all evidences that animal abusers do not simply stop at the level of harming animals. When people first start to abuse animals, they will develop a sense of superiority and enjoy the power they possess, having living beings at their mercy. This feeling of supremacy will engulf the abusers and blind them to their humane moral over time. As a result, they have a high tendency to become more brazen and start to target new victims among the most vulnerable. Further research has shown consistent patterns of animal cruelty among perpetrators of more common forms of abuse such as: child abuse, spouse abuse and elder abuse. Therefore, animal abuse must be curbed and minimized in order to ensure that these animal abusers do not sink deeper into the bottomless pit of harming biological entity. Stopping animal abuse also helps to safeguard the safety of the people in the dubious society.
             I feel strongly against animal abuse because animal abuse is wrong for a massive amount of reasons, all of which are examples of why it should be stopped. It does not matter what the reason behind someone's abuse of animals is, cruelty is still cruelty, be it because he is suffering from a psychiatric condition or because of religious issues.


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