[lit-ideas] Re: Making of a mass murderer in English Class

<<A.A.  She doesn't wonder where evil comes from.  Norman Mailer thinks it
comes from the devil.  Maybe she thinks it comes from the devil too.  I
think it comes from abuse in childhood.  Victims create victims.  Each
victim reacts differently.  Unless you think the devil creates victims, the
answer is to stop creating victims in childhood.>>

Every time you post on this topic, I want to hum "Nothing comes from
nothing; nothing ever could....".

Thought experiment:   Imagine that it were possible to scientifically  trace
human behaviour to the very first "evil" act by a human.  If evil is the
result of child abuse, and there were apparently a first child-abuser --
whence comes that abuser's evil?  Circular logic -- under my feet, over my
head.

Julie Krueger

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