--- In [email protected], Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Atrocities are very possible when you believe that a) you are not the doer, b) it's all an illusion anyway, c) the atrocities are committed as a means to heaven on earth for a thousand years, and d) death is not real. a >
I think in order to commit attrocities, there has to be a fundamental lack of empathy for our fellow human beings, and I've heard that called sociopathy. Whatever else the sociopath uses as justification for hurting and killing others is just rationalizing this basic lack of empathy for others. It doesn't follow at all thnat if we are experiencing a), b) and d) above, that we are therefore capable of comitting attrocities. As for c), that sounds psychotic.
