Thanks Ellis.
If there was a supreme being who put all this together one might reasonably ask "what was the point in intentionally creating a situation in which a cockroach is set up to be the victim of such horror." If one makes this situation the result of a conscious act it would be as cruel as could be imagined. An entity that intentionally created this situation might reasonably be asked if there was not some more humane solution. And we all know the answer is a resounding: Yes!
Anthropomorphism alert.
Who knows what a cockroach experiences and feels about it?
Goto:
http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/story.htmland see how Mike the Chicken felt for a year and a half after losing his head, less his brain stem and one ear. Didn't seem too troubled.
The best philosophers cannot yet decide whether an animal like a cockroach can actually 'suffer' in any meaningful sense...
...but because it suits your purposes, then it's a 'HORROR'.
Just because it has a big Yuch! factor from a human perspective, it doesn't actually follow that it is cruel.
Blacknad.
