"El hombre que se sienta frente a mi es un asesino de masas. Es un violador en serie y un torturador. Conversamos sobre el tiempo, su familia, su niñez. (...) El hombre tiene ahora ya sus 80 años, siendo frágil e inofensivo, incluso encantador. Instintivamente me cae bien. Me resulta difícil relacionarlo con el monstruo que fue hace ya tantos años. (...) ¿Qué clase de persona podría haber cometido semejantes atroces actos? Quiero averiguarlo."
I recently wrote a piece for CNN about a Syrian rebel who carved out a man's heart and began to eat it. The editor had asked me to explain what could make a man do such a thing. I tried to explain, and many people were outraged by what I wrote. In one way or another, they were all saying: You think when you try to understand why men do evil things, you are going to learn something that might help prevent atrocities in the future. But really you are just excusing the perpetrators, justifying unjustifiable actions. The only thing you need to understand about evil is how to punish it.
¿Sólo hay que perseguir y castigar "el Mal", o hay que comprenderlo también?
#1 Si se comprende parcialmente por qué sucede cualquier cosa siempre se puede actuar preventivamente e intentar mitigar sus efectos la próxima vez que se produzca
La doctrina del crimen y castigo es la base del pensamiento de "derechas". No pienses, actúa.
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I recently wrote a piece for CNN about a Syrian rebel who carved out a man's heart and began to eat it. The editor had asked me to explain what could make a man do such a thing. I tried to explain, and many people were outraged by what I wrote. In one way or another, they were all saying: You think when you try to understand why men do evil things, you are going to learn something that might help prevent atrocities in the future. But really you are just excusing the perpetrators, justifying unjustifiable actions. The only thing you need to understand about evil is how to punish it.
¿Sólo hay que perseguir y castigar "el Mal", o hay que comprenderlo también?
#1 Si se comprende parcialmente por qué sucede cualquier cosa siempre se puede actuar preventivamente e intentar mitigar sus efectos la próxima vez que se produzca
La doctrina del crimen y castigo es la base del pensamiento de "derechas". No pienses, actúa.