How do we brave cruelty? The leopard doesn’t know. She prowls her jungle and sees only that it is getting smaller, that food is getting scarcer, and the water tastes like poison. She cannot distinguish if the human children she preys on are friend or foe, if they are responsible for all this or not, she is just hungry. There isn’t an ounce of evil in her, she doesn’t mean to be cruel, and yet she is and so are we.
Paddy Dobson
30th May 2024