What the absolute fuck??? Torturing bears is legal in South Carolina

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43. This needs to go viral. I remember seeing William Hogarth's horrific engravings in school:

The Four Stages of Cruelty

Four Stages of Cruelty is a series of four printed engravings published by English artist William Hogarth in 1751. Each print depicts a different stage in the life of the fictional Tom Nero.

Beginning with the torture of a dog as a child in the First stage of cruelty, Nero progresses to beating his horse as a man in the Second stage of cruelty, and then to robbery, seduction, and murder in Cruelty in perfection.

Finally, in The reward of cruelty, he receives what Hogarth warns is the inevitable fate of those who start down the path Nero has followed: his body is taken from the gallows after his execution as a murderer and is mutilated by surgeons in the anatomical theater.

The prints were intended as a form of moral instruction; Hogarth was dismayed by the routine acts of cruelty he witnessed on the streets of London. Issued on cheap paper, the prints were destined for the lower classes.

The series shows a roughness of execution and a brutality that is untempered by the humorous touches common in Hogarth's other works, but which he felt was necessary to impress his message on the intended audience. Nevertheless, the pictures still carry the wealth of detail and subtle references that are characteristic of Hogarth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Stages_of_Cruelty

I've seen and had to deal with both intense human and animal cruelty. There is no excuse for this going on. If Governor Haley doesn't act, she is no better than Representative King who supports dog and cock fighting in his state, IIRC.

There is something to be said for being a bleeding heart liberal. I'll take one of them, or a Catholic priest who blesses animals, any day of the week over these atrocious persons.