ATTN: Everyone (Not for the squeamish. Seriously.)

[Phox]

You keep getting hung up in the Ain't It Awfuls, which dilutes the message. It's not so much "A person did this and this andthis." It's "A person did this."

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Sometimes the more evolved parts of peoples' brains just...shut off.

And people can justify anything in their own minds. You see this with child molesters: "The the kid took his shirt off. He wanted it."

No. The person who made the lampshade was just a person. Probably not in an altered state; probably not any more shut off than you or I are right now.

[EK WAFFLR]

Becoming Evil

Relevant.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

You keep getting hung up in the Ain't It Awfuls, which dilutes the message. It's not so much "A person did this and this andthis." It's "A person did this."

Sometimes the more evolved parts of peoples' brains just...shut off.

And people can justify anything in their own minds. You see this with child molesters: "The the kid took his shirt off. He wanted it."

No. The person who made the lampshade was just a person. Probably not in an altered state; probably not any more shut off than you or I are right now.

Well, yes. And I see that I'm throwing out labels like "psychotic" and "child molester" for some examples, but not all of them. A lot of people who do this stuff don't have a pathology, they just manage to dehumanize whoever they're doing it to. I've read that's part of training for combat, Vietnam war-era soldiers were told things like "The Viet Cong don't cry when you kill their kids, it doesn't bother them", i.e., "Viet Cong are not really humans." It's easier to kill and mutilate an "it". Given enough bad signal, anybody could end up doing it.