What is cruelty?
Maniac ... This has always been and always will be, at least in the foreseeable future. In the early nineties was caught and shot the one that killed eleven boys, but not just killed but tortured to death, using specially brutal torture. And he used both the physical torture and moral: for example, potoroshil one child in front of another. Penchant for such things came from him during his school years, then grew, matured - and finally the dream realized. He felt no pleasure from the deaths and suffering of victims. When he could not find his next victim, then returned to the place of burial of the previous child, all well thought of and he felt better.
This is unquestionably a man is sick and morally, and mentally. Therefore, treatment of the moral disease in such a case will not work. It would be like to treat with psychotherapy patients with organic brain damage. But the punishment a little more useful. Punishment was too slow. Maniac killed eleven people, until they found him. Could kill more if it were more intelligent and poizvorotlivee. The only viable option would be both mental and moral treatment of the disease not running, r is, treat it was necessary when the symptoms were limited to sadistic dreams. And in this case, the correct treatment is preferable to just punishment.
Monsters
Ivan the Terrible in his youth was seen in many acts of sadism chrezvychanogo. Had seven wives. Initially successful ruler, in subsequent years is showing stronger signs of mental and moral disorder. Ramshackle country to such an extent that in 1572 the land around Moscow were depopulated. In the same year the Crimean Tatars were able to rob Moscow. When the son of Ivan the Terrible stood up for his wife, he kills his son and sole heir.


Dracula, who has been so severely that the legend of his deeds have penetrated into many of the country, loved to put people at stake and even prefer to eat the food, hearing the groans of the dying victims. The real name of Dracula, Vlad Tepes, or Vlad otherwise sazhatel at stake, because it was his favorite pastime. Wallach became ruler in 1456. The very name Dracula means "son of the dragon." Dragon (Dracul) called his father. An ancient ruler cut legs for people going over the river to wade, to see what is happening at this moment with bone marrow. Another dissected out of curiosity stomachs of pregnant women. Caligula, who also killed his son, though, the reception, was a terrible tyrant, carrying the disease. Maybe crazy. But in any case, became ill mentally. Killed most of his relatives during his lunch people were tortured and killed. These are just some of those who somehow went down in history. But how much we do not know, ordinary monsters who could not stand?
What is cruelty? " Violence is a disease of compassion - Altruistic insufficiency, congenital or acquired. (In the case of sadism - altruistic perversion when udovolstie delivers not weaken the fact of others 'suffering, but the fact that their gain or to cause, but these cases are already among the mental pathology.) Compassion can be observed in very young children, still unable to discriminate between their own and others' experiences . Can be observed in domestic animals who sympathize with his master in the case of sorrow or trouble, trying to comfort him, rejoice with him and participate in family quarrels, sometimes choosing one of the parties to soostvetstvii with their own notions of justice. It is possible that children's emotional indistinction himself and another, and remains the basis of adult altruism.
In any case, a normal adult can feel the pain of another and it does not need learning. But the pain feels different than my other. Imagine for example that you urgently need to sew up a wound to another person. Get a needle and thread, pull off his fingers bleeding edge, plunge the game in the living flesh and turn it out there ... If you're not a surgeon, your experience may be even brighter than the experience of the "patient." But the thing that you feel is not pain, but something quite different: an unpleasant experience for which vobschem something no exact name. We call this a moral pain or pain-M. Unfortunately, the M-pain easily inhibited and destroyed by learning. You ate a surgeon, then sew up the wound will not be easy, and M-pain you will not be disturbed.
AVAILABILITY OF M-PAIN almost completely prevent the direct Crimes against the person. But if you can unlearn M-pain, then most likely you can and learn it. Easy to experience such pain itself gives limited results, is not acting at all and not completely. But, undoubtedly, the cruelty of small children is precisely this reason - they have not felt this pain and unable to understand how much could suffer another. Therefore, a small child could break off small animals living as gently as a plush toy. But such cruelty, brutality out of ignorance, with the time passes. A truly compassionate learn not through suffering but through Unconditional Love.