How a country treats its animals shows what it really is, beneath its stated values. If people behave brutally toward animals, no form of democracy or good institutions will save them. Cruelty to the defenceless is the test that political systems cannot paper over.
Anger can be a source of wisdom because it has the power to break through limits that calm reasoning accepts. When justice is denied to the weak, rage can become their clarifying and cleansing response. It is not only a destructive feeling but a generative one.
The moment people put themselves on a raised platform above other creatures, they grant themselves the right to decide who lives and who dies. That elevation turns a steward into a tyrant and a usurper. Calling hunters partners of God in creation is this self-elevation dressed up as holiness.
Communities can sit through monstrous claims without blinking because custom and authority have lulled them asleep. What looks normal to everyone is only questioned by someone willing to ask whether the listeners have lost their minds, or their hearts. Tradition can stand directly in the way of justice.
Labelling someone eccentric or unbalanced is a way of deciding whose testimony counts. An older woman outside society's groups, who rejects even the name she was given, can see plainly and still be dismissed. The line between sanity and madness gets drawn around who is worthy of a voice.