I like to watch most animals suffering emotional abuse and I enjoy seeing >some< types of animals suffering physical abuse, but I could never bring myself to harm an animal in either of these ways. I firmly believe animal abusers should receive mandatory prison time and execution for chronic offenders.

Is this a quirk of evolution? My upbringing? Why am I like this? How can what I feel be in such opposition to what I think and know is right? I grew up on a farm so I shoot pest animals and although I'm used to it I still get annoyed at myself when I do not get a clean, instant kill, but then I can watch animals being abused and I get some kind of new emotional rush, a positive emotional feeling from it that I haven't experienced before. Is this common?