Evil? The same “evil” is within everyone if you allow yourself to get to a certain place. When something causes you to start thinking of people with such contempt, as less than human, you get to a place where you can justify anything.
I respectfully disagree. I have hauled mentally ill folks. They do what they do for a variety of reasons, all of which can be normally explained in some manner.
This f***er, he was just evil. Sometimes folks are just pure evil. No illness, not disturbed, nor demented. Just evil. This is very rare I'll admit, I would agree with your statement more times than not. But I don't dismiss evil.
Regards,
Doug
This is not a lot different from Liam Neeson saying he wanted to kill all black people, just because the person who raped his friend was black. I think we kid ourselves if we think it is impossible for ourselves to get to that place. It’s just a failure to imagine the right triggers, certain thoughts indulged, one building upon another, until we ourselves become radicalized into believing our heinous actions are justified.
DD is right. Those actions that disparage white people can lead to monstrous acts like this. It’s not a justification, it’s a start to a roadmap of pathology. Not for everyone, but just the right person in the right environment who experiences the right triggers at the right time time, indulging the right thoughts, and a monster capable of doing stuff like this is born.
Thankfully it’s a rare person who accumulates all the precursors for getting to that place of utter contempt for other humans. A quicker path to that place is a belief that the negative attributes of one person is applicable to the whole group. It seems to me, that is the most important precursor. Without that we don’t have Dylan Roof shooting up a church full of innocent black people. We don’t have this guy shooting a bunch of muslims. Stay far away from collectivist thinking whether left or right. It’s dangerous.