People who are unkind or uncaring can be described as meaner than a junkyard dog.
China, for example, is often portrayed in Western media as the uncaring uber-polluter of the future, because of its massive coal-fired power-station programme.
When Chavez was elected in 1998, the national mood was one of exasperation: citizens, rich and poor, were sick of political leaders they considered corrupt and uncaring.
They destroy these helpless but Stoic humans who are chafing under their tyrannical and unjust and uncaring rule. In the biblical story, when the Israelites told the story, they modified it.
