Question comes as a kind of addition to one I asked awhile back. It was about having met a truly evil person. I can tell the story again if anyone is interested but as a young teen I interacted with a guy in the Aryan brotherhood from California several times.

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      The fact that he’d be eligible for parole after 15 years after holding people captive for 24 years is insane.

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      I disagree with your initial statement but I wont have the same unproductive argument again. Pretty fucking horrific stuff you were around. Thank you for the contribution

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      … "after Fritzl convinced her and the authorities that they were foundlings each time. "

      Case closed Sergeant, it’s just another foundling, they seem to be plentiful in these parts. WTF!?

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        That case is a bottomless pit of vileness. Don’t try to understand it. Unless you want to, in which case I digress.

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      There is such a thing as evil. No one is ever 100% evil or 100% good, but that doesn’t mean evil doesn’t exist.

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        I want to agree. I really do. But labeling people as evil is detrimental to the evolution of humanity, because it fosters hatred. My point of view is that there are malicious actions, not evil people.