If fantasy could be true (contains some RotE spoilers so beware)

[danieladamsmith]

What is cruel? Euthanasia or letting someone live on tubes? Abortion or giving birth to a child when you don't want it?

Cruel is taking pleasure from another's pain and suffering. Cruel is locking a child in a closet for 8, 10, 20 hours a day. Cruel is molesting, raping, beating or murdering a child. Cruel is torturing an animal for pleasure..Cruel is picking on someone that cannot defend themself. I know we live in a world of relatavism and subjectivism..I have a pretty good idea of what cruelty is...I didn't realize cruelty was up for discussion but since Joost brought it up....Is Euthanasia in the discussion? I'd say if someone, preferably the person that is ill, decides they would prefer to die I'd say that wasn't cruelty..Having a child when you don't want it?. Politically I am pro-choice because I don't want to live in a world where women have to hide in a back alley to get an abortion for a mistake they made. Though many abortions are needless. Personally I am pro-life because I have a child and when you see what that little thing becomes it's hard to feel any other way... One can always have the child and put it up for adoption. One can also try using birth control. I've heard that usually works. And if it didn't there are morning after pills.
Is Cruelty definable or scalable? I don't know. Maybe it's like that judge..."I know pornography when I see it." I know cruelty when I see or hear of it...What do you think cruelty is?