Cruelty

Cruelty is indifference to suffering and even positive pleasure in inflicting it.

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Cruel ways of inflicting suffering may involve violence, but violence is not necessary for an act to be cruel. For example, if another person is drowning and begging for help, and you merely watch with disinterested amusement or pleasure, you are being cruel — not violent.

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Cruelty is often used in the regards to the treatment of animals, children, and prisoners. See: punishment, draconian, and cruel and unusual punishment.

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According to Friedrich Nietzsche, almost all higher culture comes from the spiritualization of cruelty.

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Suffering: :"Sad" redirects here; for the three letter acronym, see SAD, or for the Qur'anic sura see Sad...

Pleasure: Pleasure describes the broad class of mental states that humans and other animals experience as positive, enjoyable, or worth seeking. It includes more specific mental states such as happiness, entertainment, enjoyment, ecstasy, and euphoria. In psychology, the pleasure principle describes pleasure ...

Punishment: Punishment is the practice of imposing something unpleasant on a wrongdoer as a response to something unwanted that the wrongdoer has done. In psychological terms this is known as "positive punishment". "Negative punishment", on the other hand, is when something is removed from or denied to the pun...

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