It puzzles me that intelligent, heartfelt left-wing people often fail to understand evil. They don’t concede it exists. They are wrong.
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''We are aging out of the horror of the years he hunted young girls. Fit at 58, he hasn’t aged out; that’s largely the myth of bodily aging, not urge. The crime industry — courts, academics, criminals, journalists — spends time and money studying motives but must sometimes consider that sheer enjoyment is the main one.
It puzzles me that intelligent, heartfelt left-wing people often fail to understand evil. They don’t concede it exists. They are wrong.''
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''The thing is, Bernardo’s not smart enough to be repaired. His brain cannot contain the necessary concepts.
A few years ago, he self-published some kind of dog’s mess of a space hero thriller online. I read most of it. Bernardo is stupid. He is thick. He is illiterate. He is childish. He couldn’t manage a plot because he was incapable of joining up bits of things, the rockets and stuff. His dialogue reeked.
If the prison service is allowed to stage its intervention and send Bernardo for atrocity rehab, it won’t work. He doesn’t understand what you’re talking about. He’s not bright but he’s still a psychopath.''