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• wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sorry but the level of violence in this article goes beyond just someone losing their temper because of life circumstances . These were actions, and suggests to me a psychopath beyond reform.

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  • unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think what @Cypher@lemmy.world was getting at was that we need to help people, especially men, to prevent them from becoming “a psychopath beyond reform”. Simply put, addressing the upstream problem

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    • wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know what they meant. I just disagree. Some people are just inherently fucked and intervention won’t always work. There are bad seeds out there unfortunately and ignoring this fact with wishful thinking won’t make it to away.

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      • unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So you believe that people are just born evil?

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  • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The violence goes well beyond what you believe can be caused by life circumstances.

    There is a lot of evidence that “normal” people can do horrific things.

    Your refusal to believe that a person could do this, and not just some monster, says a lot about your life. You should be thankful for that.

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    • wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Uh huh. You know absolutely nothing about my life and what I’ve been through so if I were you I’d be very careful about making assumptions.

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      • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Then why aren’t you more careful making assumptions about others?

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