I think you answer your own question.
I think you answer your own question.
No, they are not animals, animals don't do this kind of thing to each other.
This kind of thing is is the result of a choice by the only reasoning, volitional being there is, man. The most terrible things ever done to men have been done to them by their fellow men.
These are are sick men - much like a skunk with rabies. You never take a rabid skunk to the vet to try to cure it, you never waste much time trying to figure out why or how the skunk got rabies, or why the rabid skunk does the illogical things it does, no, you simply shoot it.
And so must it be....