Addressing the larger point: turning your back on mercy for vulnerable individuals and instead choosing needless cruelty and violence for nothing more than your own sensory pleasure (ignoring that you are being manipulated by capital to behave this way, except to acknowledge that I don't entirely blame you) is an obvious abandonment of all core leftist values. You can't be both things at the same time. You are depending on compartmentalization to separate this atrocity that you commit from your view of yourself as a leftist. But the lies you tell yourself are not convincing to others. (Well, those who don't cling to the same lies, of course.)