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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine.

There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.

People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.