>She tied better treatment of
>animals to better treatment of the mass of human beings, but
>nevertheless saw cruelty to animals as both brutalizing _and_ emerging
>from brutal treatment of human beings
There is a tenuous link here to psychiatry; cruelty to animals is usually flagged as an early marker for psycho/sociopathologies, so arguably if catching those behaviors can lead to early treatment of these psychoses and elimination of violence as a manifested behavior it would make society marginally less cruel and threatening by eliminating the threats of violent, random death from those people (at least).
I recognize the line dividing cruelty to animals, from acceptable rough treatment of animals, to what regularly goes on in factory farms and feedlots, is probably highly arbitrarily.
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