How can people be so mean?

We hear about animal abuse all to often. I cannot understand why people can do such things. Beyond me.

Today I was visiting a friend. We were at the street talking when a man came along on a bike. He said "There is a box of kittens in a trash bin down the alley". We asked him where, and he led us to it. He is a street person, who goes through the trash containers in the alleys. In the trash bin was a box, with five little kittens in it. Two were dead, the other three barely moving. My friend and I took the living ones to her house, and wrapped them in wet paper towels to lower their temperatures. As I drove them to the Humane Society, they seemed to come around. Even started to mew.

The people at the Society were so nice, but very honest. Said these guys were less than a week old, and with all the kittens being brought in, they can only save so many. The man on the bike turned out to be a homeless man. It seems we don't respect life, whether it is animals or people. I am sorry, we can spend 100 Billion Dollars a year on a war, but don't take care of our own. Sorry about the rant.