agreed. this is actually a pretty deep and expansive topic. i recently was reading that animal abuse used to be ubiquitous across the world; animals were just toys for humans to invent games around and mutilate for fun. these days, we're told that eventually humans realized animal abuse was bad, and simply stopped doing it. bear in mind that it's widely accepted that animal abusers go on to abuse/kill humans, too, and it's a trait that is heavily scrutinized in children and in criminal profiling. also bear in mind that things like politics, personality type, intelligence, and even fetishes are genetically hereditary. so, what is more likely: that humans "realized" one day that hurting animals is wrong, or that the animal abusers were also abusing humans and eventually got executed for their crimes? when you cull the genetic line of evil people, eventually you're left with a pool of not-evil people, who go on to have not-evil children. by ceasing to cull evil, you allow it to proliferate. i also once read of a tribe of apes where the alpha males were extremely violent towards the females and beta males, but one day the alpha males found a dumpster full of rotten meat, ate it, and all died of food poisoning. the beta males and females who were denied any of the loot survived and paired up, and from then on that tribe of apes was significantly more peaceful and less violent, now that the previously greedy and aggressive genetics had been removed.
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