tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14600985.post2157039724683607750..comments2023-11-03T14:59:31.910+00:00Comments on The Growlery: Grieve for the dead, but remember the livingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14600985.post-77749337745765989162011-07-24T14:56:28.027+00:002011-07-24T14:56:28.027+00:00DrC> What kind of human can do this and
DrC>...DrC> What kind of human can do this and<br />DrC> what can be his mental justification?<br /><br />Sadly, I suspect, almost any human in the right (or, rather, wrong) circumstances. As you say, our dark side is not buried very deep and requires only the trigger to unleash it.<br /><br />In his case, it would seem, the mental justification is built around that most common and mundane of triggers: xenophobia, fear of the other. His similarity to Timothy McVeigh, in that respect, is striking.Felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13179787011325615414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14600985.post-75750742991260673472011-07-24T14:40:29.095+00:002011-07-24T14:40:29.095+00:00I have a very good friend in Norway that I visited...I have a very good friend in Norway that I visited about 20+ years ago in Bergen. (Apparently Bergen, the second largest city, only has 260,000 people.) I have a memory of a kind and civilized people.<br /><br />The horror of what happened in Oslo and the Utøya summer camp is very hard to fathom, much harder, for me, than the suicide bombings across the world, which are generic slaughter. It is even in a different class than the Oklahoma City bombing. This killer targeted each and every victim. Each was a personal killing.<br /><br />What kind of human can do this and what can be his mental justification? He was even killing his peers in cold blood. I doubt that there is an animal out there that would do that. <br /><br />It should make us all afraid of our dark side. It can't be very deep.Dr. Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06255898610620668624noreply@blogger.com