Making 'bad people' seem human is the key to making them really scary.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.
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.
Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.
I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.
What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
Bad people are intriguing!
People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.