This document is a series of rhetorical questions contrasting extreme acts of compassion and kindness with extreme acts of cruelty and harm. Each stanza asks "Who's ordered you to [act compassionately]?" but then states "But at least don't [act cruelly]." The acts of cruelty described include annihilating and manipulating lives, pulverizing civilizations, molesting territories, brutally lambasting the dead, penalizing the deprived, running over the impoverished, sabotaging success, breaking relationships, trading bones as slaves, and torturously killing and corrupting organisms. Overall, the document contrasts extreme benevolence with extreme malice and harm.