Murderers Are Not Monsters, They're Men

“Murderers are not monsters, they’re men. And that’s the most frightening thing about them.” -Alice Sebold

Most of our interactions with “evil” are through a screen. You watch a spruced up Netflix documentary on a serial killer and think to yourself “Wow, I can’t believe someone would ever act like that.” And fair enough. I think some well earned red flags would go up if you found yourself thinking “Hey this Ted Bundy guy was onto something.”

But there’s a naivety in believing history’s atrocities were committed by a different breed of human.

For starters, there’s no accountability in a world like that. If some men are just born uniquely evil, then it lessens their culpability. It also prevents you from confronting your own capacity to do likewise. Ordinary men can do extraordinary evil. An uncomfortable truth? Yes.

But better to recognize it, grapple with it, and overcome it than to walk through life thinking you’re a Chihuahua when in reality you’re a Pitbull

The last three books I read…
The Bomber Mafia
Impact Players
Essentialism