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I guess we disagree that lighting living beings on fire for fun is a lesser crime 🤷♂️
Lesser than attempted murder, yes
Fair enough, I wouldn't consider successfully torturing a cat to death as being less than attempting to kill someone, but if we don't agree on that point than we aren't going to come to an understanding here. I guess I fundamentally disagree with the argument that we should incentivize psycopathic murderers to torture animals to death for fun (by having inconsequential sentences for torturing an animal to death) rather than, you know, kill them because they clearly don't have any place in the world.
Making a less serious crime come with a less serious punishment doesn't incentivize the crime. It deincentivizes the more serious crime.
Right, by making it more appealing to just stick with the lesser crime