OBE, on this we have always agreed. I too have always believed Holly's abduction and end were exactly as you detailed and it breaks my heart for her. Monsters. I think it was about degrading and torturing someone whose light shone brightly. Someone they could never aspire to be or have. A place to direct all that rage. A way to feel powerful for having been responsible for snuffing that bright light whose mere existence taunted them.
Rest in Peace Ms. Bobo.
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Monsters indeed, tlyca, soulless monsters/inhuman creatures on steroids...meth..
There's a lot more to it than that. Psychopaths (now often coyly
labelled sociopaths) are the only real persons, places, things, in
their world. The rest of us are figments of their imagination, in
effect, to be manipulated and used in anyway appropriate and
convenient to their needs.
If they believe it to be ultimately useful
to their purposes to be kind and generous and considerate towards
someone, they will -- without limit, if helpful to their ends -- or
if they believe it to be more convenient to destroy someone, they
will.
There is no such thing as truth or lies external to them --
which explains why such persons can readily pass lie detector tests,
for example.
A quasi-religious psychiatrist I knew said they were born without
souls. A philosopher long ago came to literally believe that there
are people in this world who are actually not really human beings,
but who absolutely emulate the real thing and are basically
impossible to recognize as non-human. I think he was trying to
explain the psychopath.
