how do you react to news/pictures of violence/crulety?

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I'm personally very weird in that respect. Pictures/videos of animal crulety or violence make me very sad and disgusted but such involving humen crulety affect me still but much less and in a different way,and sometimes leave me completely cold. "Simple" daily human violence (like a brawl) leaves me absolutely cold.
how about you?

I get very sad and depressed and angry when I see violence against humans especially if its something very painful or to somewhere sensitive in the body
Towards animals much less and rarer than towards humans

I'd say I'm about the same for humans and animals. I don't have a long-lasting reaction, but I do give a slight shudder. It depends on the picture, though.

Would be nice if we could do the same poll on a forum with perfectly normal NT's but I suppose such forum doesn't exists. All forums are there for a reason. there is no forum with the title "hello let's talk about being normal NT's without any issues". Those guys are at bars and clubs.

Cruelty and violence?
I get to shudder inside. Sometimes I would want to rant and express about it.
At the same time something telling me that not bothering about it. That 'it already happened', 'it happens', 'you don't know who are they/them', 'you can't change people', 'you're not involved' 'etc'.
I always get this dilemma...

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I'm bothered by both violence against humans and animals. I also shudder on the inside. I tell my friends how I feel about it. I don't tell my parents about it, especially my mum. The only thing my mum would say is, "Why do you watch if it bothers you that much? My favourite answers to that question are

1. You'd also feel bothered if you saw how that heavy-handed parent abuse their autistic child from a distance, too.

2. The actions on that show happened so quickly that I couldn't turn the TV off fast enough.

I don't like to witness cruelty inflicted on either humans or animals but for some reason animal cruelty (especially involving dogs or cats) really hits me hard. I guess it's because I see the animals as being more innocent and defenseless. People can do things to each other and they know what damage they're inflicting, while an animal can't understand, or often times even fight back.
In most things I'm a very delayed reactor- I don't seem to feel "in the moment," but later, when I've had a chance to put images into words and internalize what I've seen, then I react.

I would feel sad and somewhat outraged, because you wish there is something you could do to help. I would feel this way towards both humans and animals, though I would be bothered more by the latter, because they tend to be more helpless.

I hate it. Animals or people.

I was unfortunate enough to see a documentary that showed a shark(?) stealing a whale's baby and eating it. It was a horribly long, drawn out death, and I just don't want such images in my head, they don't help me at all. I can't imagine how the people who made the documentary could have filmed it and not intervened. I know the shark needed his protein and might have died without it, and intervening would have been insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but if it means accepting what they did and forgiving them for it, I don't WANT to be rational.

I view stuff like that in a detached clinical way.