What's the mentality surrounding animal abuse?

in the western world what makes someone abuse or make an animal, such as a pet or farmstock, suffer sometimes to its death. are there emotional, or mental problems here (obviously) and are they 'accounted' for by either temporary mental disturbances (e.g. they had a bad week, they themselves are being mistreated by people, their peers don't value animal life), or more serious mental disturbances?

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I think that it's just a general mental health problem

Alot of these people are severely disturbed. Psychopath or sociopath!

I don't know that's why i joined Peta they should be put somewhere and i think its due to their childhood sometime and they think its right and some are just sadistic

People that abuse animals are the lowest form of life. I'm no tree hugging hippie but right is right and wrong is wrong!

They hurt animals because they can. It's a power thing. Just like men who beat women.
Cowards at heart.

I think that most people who abuse animals are sociopaths--meaning they lack a conscience or the internal inhibitions to do those things that the majority of people have. They don't feel empathy so it doesn't bother them to see anyone or thing suffer. Most people like that are probably either born that way or have become that way very early in life. I think by the time they get to tha stage there is probably little hope left.

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