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Horrific... I know he killed himself already. I know there is no real justice in this world. I can't stop my primal brain from wishing stringing him up by his feet and torturing him to death would bring those girls back or prevent others from doing the same. Edit: He ziptied thier hands and put plastic bags over their heads to suffocate them. This is not a mental health thing, this is an evil incarnate thing.
This is a human thing.
Infanticide of both kin and non kin is a rare but incredibly well documented part of our behavioral repertoire.
There's an urge to distance ourselves from someone who does this, to say that he is evil, a demon, not human. But he's us. In very specific and awful conditions, this is what we're capable of.
Nah. We label stuff good or bad for a reason, to say it's all 'a human thing' is just meaningless reductionism. Of course we are capable of it. Humanity is capable of what every human has ever done, got it. He's not me, speak for your fucking self.
I'm unable to fathom how someone is able to harm or kill their children or family. I literally cannot comprehend how someone has that in them.
That's not the point though. The point is that this isn't a one-off occurrence. It's terrifying how often people end up murdering their spouse and/or children, it happens somewhere in the world every day, and has been documented to happen throughout history. Thus, it's clear that even though most of us can't even comprehend how anyone could do something like this, it's reductionist to write it off as "inhuman". It's very clear that a terrifying amount of people have it in them to do something like this under the correct circumstances. Most of those people probably couldn't even imagine how anyone could commit a crime like this before they themselves do it.
It's sickening, and it's evil, but it's very clearly a human behaviour. I still have an urge to call it "inhuman" because the behaviour is so unimaginable to me, as it is for most people.