Society's mores have changed, and what used to be thought not to be cruel and unusual now is thought to be cruel and unusual.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.
Sometimes you have to be cruel... in order to be even crueler.
Today's world is very cruel.
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
We are not by nature cruel.
We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.
It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.
One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.
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