Whenever I experience cruelty it makes me want to remove myself from the situation.
I don’t watch movies that I think are cruel. For that reason I don’t like gore, horror and other things of that nature.
People who are cruel are not my friends, and if they were my friends my friendship stops immediately. I want to be around kind and helpful people, not jerks.
Once when I was younger I was friends with a very smart asian guy. I had stayed the night at his house and it seemed like he was going to be a good friend and that perhaps others were wrong to not like him. He took me to his grandfathers farm and then suggested that it might be fun to kill small birds with a bb gun.
I told him that I didn’t want to do that, and we could find something else to do. He said that he does it to help protect his grandfathers crops, which is logical but cruel. Anything he could kill couldn’t possibly make a meaningful difference so why do it?
Anyway he started shooting birds despite my desire to do something else and I told him that I wanted to leave and go home now. I said that I don’t support what you are doing, and there is no reason to do this. I went home and never spoke with him again.
Strangely as it turns out, I did get “revenge” on him. I asked a friend out to prom and she said yes. She then said that this bird killing friend liked her and asked her to prom previously and she hadn’t answered him. So I gave her an excuse and probably hurt his feelings as well. I wonder if that was karma?
Cruely has no place in civilization.