Your post really resonated strongly with me. I concur!! How indeed can human beings do such sick, twisted and disgusting things to another. Sometimes I think I am one of the adopted humans on this planet and not of the same gene pool. Not that I'm perfect by any means...but I just find it impossible to understand such horrific cruelty and the ability to do it. I mean what drives a man to be so damned cruel?? I'm a woman and I ask this question sincerely to the men on this thread. And I have survived an extremely abusive past. So I don't think it's a good excuse to say that men can be like this because of abuses they have suffered.