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Originally Posted by D
It's easy to get caught up in the emotion tied with shit like this.
As I'm sure with most here, I know there's a part of me that wishes I was at the scene of this crime with a shotgun and a chainsaw and a small armed force - to do what I can to save that woman and her son from such a travesty.
But once it's done, it's done - once they're caught, it's over - and letting emotion into the equation at that point only clouds matters, I think. IMHO, you do what you can to pick up the pieces, and move on - doing what you can to prevent it in the future, and hopefully learning something along the way.
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To be honest, I do not believe anything can be done to prevent this sort of thing. It is the side of humanity that disgusts me most - its propensity towards unthinkable, senseless cruelty.
In truth, what scares me most are not the ones in the group who initiated this thing - undoubtedly severely warped sociopaths - but the ones who followed them, the ones who saw the wrongness of their actions, yet still took part in what happened. They are similar to the death camp guards in nazi Germany, or the people who slaughtered their neighbours in Rwanda - the masses whose moral intuitions will never be enough to persuade them to take action against obvious brutality, cruelty and injustice.