They're ruthless.

Were we too harsh? To an amateur?

They may be tough customers.

They're hardly human.

Them cruel folks there.

They look so cruel, Mother.

They are cruel.

Children are charming, but cruel.

They're cruel, but you must.

Aren't we being just a wee bit callous?

Yes. Forgive us.

No, my dear woman, we're not being callous.

But actually they are cruel to themselves.

And, of course, they are cruel and ruthless toward others.

we mustn't be too hard on her.

They deserve their cruel priests, and evil gods.

Maybe. Old people get as hard as their arteries sometimes.

Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Growing up as a boy, we were taught that men had to be tough, had to be strong, had to be courageous, dominating no pain, no emotions, with the exception of anger and definitely no fear that men are in charge, which means women are not that men lead, and you should just follow and do what we say that men are superior women are inferior that men are strong women are weak that women are of less value, property of men, and objects, particularly sexual objects.

You stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost as your fathers did, so do ye.

Or you can stay radically cruel keep the status quo as is, make sure animals have no freedom, make sure they never experience one drop of human kindness, make sure their babies are stolen from them, make sure their beaks are sliced off, their horns cut off and their testicles are ripped off.

They lay hold on bow and spear they are cruel, and have no mercy their voice roars like the sea and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.

They shall hold the bow and the lance they are cruel, and will not shew mercy their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

I thought that business people were supposed to just be ruthless and that that was the only way you could have a chance of succeeding.

Though now we must appear bloody and cruel, as by our hands and this our present act, you see we do, yet see you but our hands and this the bleeding business they have done, our hearts you see not.

A sympathetic press amplifies heart rending stories of lost jobs and homes, making those counseling against intervention or advocating longer term fixes appear callous.

CA Well, Richard, when I was starting off in business, I knew nothing about it and I also was sort of I thought that business people were supposed to just be ruthless and that that was the only way you could have a chance of succeeding.

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