The Human Pendulum
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"...........I'm reminded of the woman who killed her children the same month she won a "Teacher of the Year" award. Then there's that nice family man who raised millions of dollars for charity yet one day dragged a guy out of his car and kicked him to death, all because the guy had the temerity to honk at him after the light turned green.
These are stories we hear from time to time and will continue to hear time and time again. They won't go away. Nonetheless, we persist in thinking of them as aberrations. Anomalies to the human behaviour.
Quickly, we try to ascertain the mitigating factors. Medication the person was taking. Suppressed trauma from childhood. Postpartum depression, excessive stress...the playing of violent video games.
Anything and everything...just so long as we do not have to face the reality head-on: Good people can do very bad things. Because to accept that notion will be unthinkable and self indictive. It means we are capable of doing the unspeakable.
Which is not to say that your friendly, law-abiding neighbour will be chopping up his entire family with an axe anytime soon. Only that somewhere out there, somebody's neighbour will be. And right now he doesn't even know it. As troubling as that may sound, it could be worse.
You could be that neighbour."
excerpt from "The Promise of a Lie" ~ Howard Roughan
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die die lor
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Humans can be unpredictable...
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ok, everybody stay away from me. i don't wanna hurt nobody. -
My thought...? What can we be doing about these...?
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wa.. so chim.dun understand