Removing an ear? Splitting a tongue? His customers had mental problems. You might ask: Would you split your 20 year old child's tongue in half or cut off the

Removing an ear? Splitting a tongue? His customers had mental problems. You might ask: Would you split your 20 year old child's tongue in half or cut off their ear? Then why would you do somebody else's? For normal decent people, it takes some sort of learned desensitization to do this to somebody. Like the way soldiers kill other people.