{"id":63543,"date":"2017-02-19T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63543"},"modified":"2017-02-19T14:48:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:48:22","slug":"cruelty-of-humans-in-pictures-some-readers-may-find-photos-upsetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/19\/cruelty-of-humans-in-pictures-some-readers-may-find-photos-upsetting\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruelty of Humans in Pictures (Some readers may find photos upsetting)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Shenali Waduge<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>You end up considering faith in humanity no sooner you view these horrific photos of the cruelty that exists in people towards sentient beings who cannot speak. The perpetrators are people of all walks of life \u2013 academics, teachers, pregnant mothers, housewives, clergy, law enforcement officers, children, fathers, politicians \u2026.<\/p>\n<p>These photos cover just a handful of cruel acts by them upon innocent animals. How can people tie fireworks to the mouths of animals and watch the agonizing cries of an animal frightened and in pain?<\/p>\n<p>How can people starve their own pet or keep them outside in horrid weather conditions?<\/p>\n<p>How can people even think of chopping off an animals limbs &amp; paws?<\/p>\n<p>These cruel intentions carried out with such malicious hates forces us to take a step back and ask ourselves exactly what is the development we can boast of in a modern society?<\/p>\n<p>If we cannot show compassion and empathy to an animal that bares no grouse against us, what is the satisfaction we get from hurting it?<\/p>\n<p>These people are so sadistic that their cruelty is paraded by taking photos and posing with the animal they have hurt and posting these on social media. There are some parents that are showing cruelty to animals infront of their own children, there are others who sacrifice animals in front of their children too\u2026 this starts a vicious circle wherein the innocent child is made to feel that killing or hurting an animal is not wrong and is the accepted norm and so we end up never seeing an end to cruelty by mankind. Its time we stop.<\/p>\n<p>Its time we rise against these inhuman acts and begin to shower compassion to all humans and in particular to animals.\u200b<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3T7XeJrIqCiSHBCdHh1UGktdnM\/view\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3T7XeJrIqCiSHBCdHh1UGktdnM\/view<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shenali Waduge You end up considering faith in humanity no sooner you view these horrific photos of the cruelty that exists in people towards sentient beings who cannot speak. The perpetrators are people of all walks of life \u2013 academics, teachers, pregnant mothers, housewives, clergy, law enforcement officers, children, fathers, politicians \u2026. These photos cover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenali-waduge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}