we know from relating to other human-family species (since every stray animal is also an abandoned child of society) that you simply cannot torture animals into acting different. you can only make them into hurt creatures. they still need the same things.
lack is the opposite of life and we all feel it keenly, imagination apes. hunger bites and loneliness burns everyone.
the first step to freedom is knowing that ideas are never more important than human needs. the strongest idea realizes its own unreality. virtuous creations have a death. knowing the limit of your effect is necessary for peace.