It’s tempting to just write them off as monsters and take the emotionally satisfying route of just killing them or whatever.  “You’re bad and you will be punished” and like I mean if that actually stops it from continuing, great but like sometimes I wonder if it actually helps.

Like it’s tempting to take the harshest, most just kill em’ position with serial killers or whatever and like I get that but I’m not sure that stops there from being more of them and like looking at prevention, looking at the causal factors in terms of the most hideous things that happen is uncomfortable because it shows that evil isn’t something that just shows up for us to do battle with, evil is a sign of social failure and that’s fucking uncomfortable and whether a given individual is redeemable or retrievable or whatever isn’t really the point.  The point is that there was a point where they were usually and we didn’t, and how that happened is ugly to look at.

IDK.