Who Do We Think We ARE?

What is wrong with people? Why do so many alleged "human beings" take such great pleasure in watching animals being tortured for "sport" and "entertainment"? If it's not dogfighting, it's cockfighting. If it's not cockfighting, it's bullfighting. When God gave man "dominion" over the creatures of the earth, what mortal man decides "dominion" included abusing, torturing, hunting, taunting, racing, "fighting", inhumanely slaughtering, and innumerable other shameful acts against creatures great and small committed daily by we, the purported "higher species" ?

Every time I see one of those "Most Shocking" videos shot during the "Running of the Bulls", or during a bullfight or rodeo where the bull - for once in a great while - gets free long enough to gore, stomp, butt, or otherwise inflict a measure of harm on the matador/rider and/or bystanders, the narrator always refers to these retaliatory acts on the part of the bull as "brutal", "savage", "horrifying", etc. I don't view it that way at all... in fact, as far as I'm concerned, anyone willingly participating in or recreationally observing such cruel and inhumane "sporting" events has it coming, as far as I'm concerned. They anticipated great "entertainment" in watching or actually perpetrating that same animal having his genitals cinched excruciatingly tight in order to make him buck, or being repeatedly stabbed with barbed spears which remained in its flesh and caused it to bleed profusely, taunting it with a red cape and inducing it to charge time after time to the point of exhaustion brought on by exsanguination and stress, then driving a sword through it's skull into its brain for what is often not even a clean kill. If animals are, indeed, "lesser' creatures than we, where do we get off referring to them defending themselves in such a manner as "savage" or "brutal"? Except in cases of illness/injury, animals do not attack and/or kill other than to eat. Man, on the other hand, has no compunction about torturing, provoking, taunting, abusing, neglecting, and exploiting animals for nothing more than entertainment, "sport", and, in many instances, some sort of skewered "fashion sense".

Yes, God gave us dominion over the animals, but never permission to treat them with such monumental disregard, indifference to their pain and well-being, and heartless disrespect. Who are we to say that animals of all kinds are unable to "feel", "experience emotion", or "think", simply because their bodies are constructed differently than out own? And even if they cannot experience these things, what right does that bestow upon us to treat them so horribly? If we're the "higher thinking" species, why is it that when man and animal meet, the one with the far greater propensity for unthinkable cruelty is inevitably man?

No wonder the majority of humanity fears any possibility that UFO's and higher life forms than he exist. Given the way man treats "lesser" creatures than himself... what if a life form higher than his own holds the same indifference toward mankind as man has demonstrated for the animal kingdom since the dawn of his existence? Think less of me if you like... but I'd say it'd be a richly deserved comeuppance.