Ratness

Cat is hunger. Cat is cruel. Food — Cat is hunter, a machine who smells ratness, who needs fuel.

All in all, an exemplar of Park ratness, their Bernie.

And then you add to it the judgment that the victims are some form of deserving species of ratness, further reducing the numbers. But ratness is relative, right?

But they are much better at ratness or guineapigness or monkey business than we are because of other things we have that thicken the plot: like capacities for wonder and conscience and compassion. These tend to bring us into conflict with our ratness or guineapigness or monkey shines.