Causes of Animal Cruelty and How to Stop Them

Throughout the years, animal cruelty has changed but for the worst not the better. Imagine being beaten to the brink of death by a human. Imagine being forced to fight to the death of oneself or opponent. Imagine being starved so much that body parts start to go out on ones body. Would a human enjoy being beaten or starved? Are animals not as important as humans? Is animal cruelty worthy trying to be stopped like human abuse? Animal cruelty is currently a growing problem in today’s society because of psychological disorders, overpopulation, and money and it should be stopped.

Animal cruelty is a term that is not clearly defined as it deals with many different ways . Two types of animal cruelty are active and passive animal cruelty. Active animal cruelty is defined by Gaps, the Georgia animal protective services to be, “ implies malicious intent, where a person has deliberately and intentionally caused harm to an animal, and is sometimes referred to as NAI (Non-Accidental Injury)” (“Animal Cruelty”). Active animal cruelty is intentional and sometimes the worst that happens because someone actually wants to hurt the animal. Actually wanting to hurt an animal is worse than accidentally hurting an animal, although both are unforgivable. According to Gaps. the Georgia animal protective services, passive animal cruelty is “categorized by cases of neglect, where the crime is a lack of action rather than the action itself” (“Animal Cruelty”). Passive animal cruelty cover the neglect part of animal cruelty while active animal cruelty covers the parts like, animal fighting, and beating an animal, etc.

Psychological disorders is a major cause of animal cruelty. Split personality and being abused as a child is two...

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...ciety. Reasons that animal cruelty is such a problem is because, physiological disorders, overpopulation and money. Psychological disorders make people think that it is ok to do whatever they want and so be it they want to hurt defenseless animals. Overpopulation causes animal cruelty because when a space has too many animals then it can contain there is not enough resources for them all to sustain life there. Money causes animal cruelty because some people use animal fighting as entertainment and a money making ability. In addition, money also cause people love their animals and just can not afford to care for them but still keep them. Although animal cruelty is a problem some people tend to think they are not because society has bigger problems. Finally, animal cruelty is a big problem in society today because people just look past it in the scheme of life.