What could make you kill someone?

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Re: What could make you kill someone?

@chaibiskut

Some days I could stab the kids in Café.

@chaibiskut

I’m going to disagree a little. I think given the right circumstances, we’re all capable of bloodshed. All of us. We dehumanize as effortlessly as we love. It’s what allows us to sit and watch with apathy when someone else is doing it.

“We are all capable of carrying out acts of evil. That’s the great lesson you learn as a war correspondent, and probably the most disturbing. That the line between the victim and the victimizer is razor thin. That in moments of fear and instability and social disintegration we all have the capacity to carry out acts of atrocity, or at best stand by as silent accomplices. And almost no one is immune. The contagion of the crowds sees to that. When you externalize evil, you turn human beings into extractions. That no longer grieve, or love, or suffer like we do. But embody a virus that must be eradicated.”

• Chris Hedges

So we’re all in agreement then.

There is always a line. I don’t think anyone debated its existence; merely the fact that for the most part its drawn way further than what would call a psychopathic tendency. I’m sure we’re all capable of complete disregard when it comes to another human being’s life. Just need the right catalyst. And perhaps we are moving towards that what with the collective desensitization all around us. Or maybe we’re just being ourselves.

/rantthatwasgoingsomewhereinmyhead

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