Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

celebratedrecluse wrote

Well, abuse of non-human animals is certainly a predictor of abuse against human animals. It is easier to get away with, so people with violent tendencies often experiment with that first before extending their plans to their peers.

Interestingly, you could make a parallel to the establishment of fascist & other totalitarian regimes. First, the state is weaponized against marginal people, the drug addicts, the sick, racial minorities, objectified genders, then it just keeps expanding and growing until basically everyone is targeted in some way, and many people are targeted in a number of ways, by the surveillance and carceral apparatuses. It's fascinating to me, how this scales up from the individual reactionary, to their whole ideology, with remarkable continuity of tactics.

7