Reply #2: For those of us who are gifted with the burden of guilt, [View All]

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the idea of being able to commit some heinous crime and then go on as though nothing has happened is, indeed, baffling.

I took this idea to the point of talking to quite a number of people who were sitting on what to me seemed like an overwhelming load. The result was, for most of them, they always had an explanation and a story about being forced by circumstances.

Even stone killers justify their actions by insisting their victims brought it on themselves.

What I find troubling is envisioning these sad husks of human beings as the cute, bubbly babies they once were.

The real worry is that there are horrid, anti-social people in every large organization, churches, government organizations, community centers, on and on.

The demands (to do things that are fundamentally unfair) that people have to satisfy in order to climb to high office, I think, assures that an even greater number of "conscienceless" humans wind up in politics.