article_snippet.sent: Cruelty classically consists of a desire to cause pain and suffering in innocent victims, or, at the opposite extreme, it reflects a cold, callous indifference.
article_snippet.sent: Cruelty really provides us a lens into the worst of the worst of the worst.
article_snippet.sent: For 2,500 years, we have proclaimed that all human beings are equally valuable, yet we identify certain victims as especially worthy, and those who prey on certain victims as especially culpable.
article_snippet.sent: When a 19-year-old bravely dashes into a burning building, risking his life to save children inside, we celebrate this heroism.
article_snippet.sent: we do not, nor should we, dismiss this bravery as the product of an impulsive not-yet-fully-formed personality.  
article_snippet.sent: If we can fully celebrate good character and heroic acts of we best young adults, why can't we fully condemn the cowardly viciousness of we worst?