Dylann Roof sentenced to death

[abaris]

I believe in evil, and I do agree with Shell that some people are just bad.

I refuse to and refrain from using that word. For the simple reason that it doesn't explain what is happening and why it is happening. Whenever I hear the term evil or bad used in connection to a crime, I ask how that will help us to prevent similar crimes from happening. Evil or bad are killer arguments that smother every kind of discussion. And discussion, or more to the point, analysis, is the only thing that can work in terms of crime prevention.

I'm in no way an expert, but out of interest I've read a lot of works on criminal profiling and forensic psychology. They all agree that there is a point where a person turns into what you call evil. Before that there are several stages down that road. And at each one of them, the last explosion could have been prevented if someone had asked the right questions and had reacted in the right way.

Am I alone in looking at Dylann, and then being aware of what he did, and thinking "What the FUCK?"

Yeah, and why not? Totally different crime, but look at Eichmann at his trial in Jerusalem. Does he look like a mass murderer to you? Does Ted Bundy? Or the lesser known Jack Unterweger, who was a serial killer on two continents?

Looks say nothing about a person.