We prefer the label: ‘pure evil’ or similar. But what exactly is ‘pure evil’? To begin with, how can evil ever be pure?
The answer has to be more scientific. What is sanity? If an individual’s senses are working correctly or normally or ordinarily, it should surely be clear that having political differences with someone doesn’t and should not lead to you crouching in a bush, waiting to shoot them dead!!!! There is a very simple process to exercise your disagreement: it’s called an election! You simply cast your vote against them and if many others agree with you, then you defeat them at the polls. At no point in that cycle, should a functioning brain suggest violence!
But I do understand the reluctance of the baying mob, seeking punishment, to accept that such actions are not those of a sane person. We want them thrown in jail and punished. But the reality, whether we choose to accept it or not, is that such individuals are simply not well in the head. It is indeed a mental health issue
Call it pure evil or unadulterated evil or whatever else we prefer, it still all boils down to a malfunctioning of the mental faculties of those individuals that would lead them to commit such heinous crimes. How else can one explain a 17 year old boy picking up a knife and stabbing girls under 10 years old to death?!! I mean, that is not normal is it?
You can be as pure evil as you want, that action is not born out of being evil, there is clearly something not right up there! It is abnormal. The perpetrator is not and couldn’t have been with his senses!
If we don’t get down to it and begin looking for early signs and treating it, sitting about calling it pure evil ain’t solving anything! It’s the same for the seemingly unending school shootings in America. The perpetrators cannot possibly be sane! To do that to your schoolmates, knowing full well, the impact on their parents, friends etc., is not pure evil, it is the action of the unwell.
Knowledge can improve the world we live in 