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It's rather ironic that American psychiatrists should consider genocide to be the product of unusual minds (rather than, say, unusual circumstances). The Westwa
by pcrh 12y ago
It's rather ironic that American psychiatrists should consider genocide to be the product of unusual minds (rather than, say, unusual circumstances). The Westwards expansion of their own country was based on the same principles as lebensraum, and also involved genocide.
- hcarvalhoalves 12y agoBoth this and the fact the transcripts can't be used by experts to predict war criminals reinforce the obvious point that anyone can do horrible things, it doesn't require sick minds, it just takes faith in doing "the right thing".
- pan69 12y agoExactly. It's the same reason why so many religious nuts are willing to kill so many people. "They" have God on their side so how could they be wrong, they're doing the right thing.