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Originally posted by ladyzekke:
B-part - I did mention at the bottom of my post that this particular guy was just one example, and that I realize there are many other people who are much worse than this guy. I used this guy in my link purely as an example, that's it, to begin the discussion, because I just happened upon the article and it made me think.
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Bah, again to me it is still a very big mystery. I truly wish there was a simple way to find out, and fix it, so we didn't have people like serial killers on this planet anymore. But something tells me it just isn't that simple. [img]graemlins/awcrap.gif[/img]
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I believe as well that it's not that simple .
Psychos are ill and cannot really distinguish wrong from right, or cannot freely choose, put it as you wish. This means they are not responsible of their actions, and cannot be punished for them. Of course they must be kept separated from the society to keep them and the others safe, but that's not a punishment, it's just the only possible way to put a remedy to a bad situation. These are not true monsters, just like a lion cannot be called a monster because he slaughters a baby elephant.
What I meant with the post above is that there are people who are able to choose right and wrong, and willfully choose wrong. Thieves, murederers, even ourselves, at least sometimes. And that "wrong" might mean million deaths in a lager or a gulag or whatever the local idiom calls a concentration camp. And the scariest thing is, such crimes are perpetrated for reasons not terribly different from those who move ourselves in our lives. Eichmann, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Saddam and the others were not psychos (well, Hitler wasn't all that normal...but Himmler, Kappler, Goring and the others were).
These are in my opinion the human monsters, and it's simple ruthlessness who makes them.
Some of us, most of us or even all of us could, given the right chance, turn into a mass murderer, even if we are absolutely normal and sane people. That's why I, like you, think it's not that simple. Actually I'm a bit more pessimistic and think there is no hope
