Which story is more pathetic "Shooting an Elephant" by Orwell or "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan poe?

The question's use of the word "pathetic" deems a
subjective answer. What this means is that the question will be answered one way by one
reader and another way by another. The answer to the question differs based upon a
reader's personal thoughts only.

Therefore, one could
justify that the story "The Black Cat" proves to be more "pathetic."  Justification for
this answer comes from the fact that the elephant in Orwell's story is "ravaging the
bazaar." The cat, from Poe's story, is not doing anything when the narrator inflicts
harm upon the creature.

The speaker in "The Black Cat" is
simply led about by his own feelings and warped mental capacities. This is very unlike
the speaker in "To Shoot an Elephant" where the choice to kill the elephant comes from
the narrator's assumed views regarding the crowd's expectations regarding the elephant's
death. Also, the narrator is legally given the right to kill the elephant based upon
law. The speaker in "The Black Cat" has no legal right to cause the cat harm--instead,
the action can be justifiably considered animal cruelty.