Children are scary

In an effort to find out if they had actually caught the dickwads that videotaped themselves beating a helpless dazed kangaroo while laughing their tard heads off, I came across this story from the Moscow Times:

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/1010/42/371909.htm

I'm sorry, what? So these kids, aged 10 and 12, CLIMBED into the kangaroo pen, bludgeoned a small kangaroo to death, then thought to themselves "since we have already started torturing creatures even MORE helpless than ourselves, let's make this that much more fun and kill some seagulls while we're at it." With the full knowledge that what they were doing was WRONG, they even had the 10 year old girl act as a "look-out."

Yes, I agree that there is more to this story that we don't know. These kids come from dysfunctional families, they're starved for [something], they're very mentally unbalanced, etc. But I still can't help but fear for the fate of man knowing that these children (and many others like them that i know are out there) are going to grow up and become not-so-helpless adults FAST.

We laud and cherish our children for being so innocent and pure and when one of them is abused or murdered, we come together (as we should) against whichever sick bastard was responsible. Why can't we come even close to doing the same for animals? We take over their land, we lock them up, we gorge ourselves on their flesh, etc. and yet they are eternally without malice, without spite, without all the awful attributes that make us human, and they each remain so to their deaths.

Humans make me sad...