Subject: More on the psychology (Long!)
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Posted on: 2017-05-26 17:14:00 UTC
(This is probably going to come out wrong and make me sound really messed up, but we'll go with it.)
Part of why most of us don't understand why someone would do something like that is because we're lucky enough to be in a state of mind where we see other humans for what they are - people with feelings and thoughts. In order to conduct one of these attacks, often times the attacker has to lose sight of their target's humanity before they follow through with the attack, otherwise they'd just talk themselves out of it. (Although there are some cases where the person does the thing, heavily regrets it, and then does something to sabotage themselves, usually suicide, although there are some cases where the killer kills themselves for a different reason and ahhh it's just complicated.) While these kinds of attacks are indeed very dastardly actions, it doesn't take as twisted of a mindset as people think, let alone pure evil - we're all pretty much human, and everything we do is for a reason (which is why characters need reasons too. Psychology and fanfic go hand in hand! :D). No one is an entirely good or bad person, and thus morality is purely based on comparison, whether to the average, to another famous figure, or to one's own ideals. When enough people agree that the bad actions outweigh the good, judging based upon deeds and spoken words, they are deemed dangerous and are dealt with as such.
Argh, there's a lot more that I want to say, but that'd make for a really long post, and it's hard to put it into more words. The human brain is a strange contraption, and as we develop as a species, it will continue to get stranger.
-Twistey
