Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Society's mores have changed, and what used to be thought not to be cruel and unusual now is thought to be cruel and unusual.
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.
I've always been fascinated by accounts of seemingly 'normal' people who have committed horrendous acts of cruelty and violence. You hear it on the news all the time.
As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.
I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.
There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.
People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.