They're trying not to actually justify hate crimes/bigotry but effectively do so w the "You would too if you were suffering this way" crap
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It bears repeating that evil people often are psychologically tortured, but not particularly so or worse so than the ppl they killed
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A lot of bad takes on this shit going back to Columbine & some ppl's determination to romanticize the internal suffering of spree killers
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Thoughts: Maybe trying to psychologically suss out the ultimate cause of hate crimes is less important than materially preventing them
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Maybe hate crimes can in fact come from anywhere and playing like they're evidence of the validity of one's pain is fuckin gross
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Maybe we should take into account that some criminals - many, even - name getting their "story told" as a motive for their crimes
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Maybe the delusion that evil is some aberration from human nature that can be cured w the right measures is a dangerous delusion
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Maybe instead of flexing our super woke Empathy Muscles in public we should go back to treating analyses of killers as an insult to victims
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