Blood Lust

What is it with people that they need to vent their anger,  or blood lust or whatever label you want to give it,   out on anything that is vulnerable and defenseless.   Is it something hidden deep in our primordial brain that creates a need to blood let,  that most of us are able to keep under control.   Perhaps there was a full moon a couple of nights back,  I'll need to check.   However I try to rationalise it,  it makes no sense to me.   What am I talking about?   Another senseless act of violence directed at a group of animals carried out by either a single moron or a group of them.  

Some years back when this sort of thing first raised it's head,  we would have some professor type with a psychology degree making noises about the Zone of proximal development (or ZNP as any good psychology student would know it) or nature/nurture or some other theory put forward by someone with an almost unpronounceable (to the western tongue) surname.   These mutterings seemed to make some sense back then,  especially when the noises being made seemed to be offering solutions.   Yet here we are in the twenty-first century and what have we got to show for it.   Child rights! (Rightly or wrongly I am making an assumption that it is kids that are committing these despicable acts)

I don't want to hit on child rights again,  I let my feelings on that matter be known a couple of blogs back.   We need to find a solution to this problem now.   I am obviously concerned about the animals that are suffering because of our inability to control these monsters that are committing the crime.   My concern does not end there however,  what worries me is what is the next step for these kids. &nbp When the killing of animals no longer satisfies their needs,  will the next step be the killing of the human animal.   Maybe someone will be make a name for him/herself by developing a theory that rationalises and compartmentises this sort of behaviour then we can spend the next fourty years blaming ourselves for the way our kids turned out, just as we have been told to blame our parents for our own behaviour.