How someone could look into the eyes of beautiful angels on earth (baby seals) and beat them over the head with a bat for it's fur is BEYOND me..... If the roles were reversed I cant help but think that the seal would show compassion to the human being. When an animal looks in our eyes, it is without judgement, they don't care how intelligent we are, what language we speak. They see us simply as another being. I can understand the animal kingdom, it has order to it, the circle of life; but with humans there is only 'doing' with the intent to profit. No order, just chaos fueled by greed. I just cant understand or fathom how some people have fallen so far from the graces of compassion that they could do such a thing to any living being without a hint of remorse. It is beyond me. I pray one day cruelty to such an unfathomable degree will no longer exist. Thats a grand hope, I know, but I have to believe its possible. For my hearts' sake.