Thursday 23 May 2013
Not Hatred, Something Worse
'Blood on his hands, hatred in his eyes' shouts the headline on today's
Daily Mail front page, over a picture of one of the two Islamist killers
who butchered a soldier on the South circular road in Woolwich
yesterday. A good headline, but belied by the picture - there's no
hatred in his eyes; there's nothing at all, really. It looks like what
psychologists call blunted affect. As far as this guy was concerned, as
he stood there with a meat cleaver in his hand, talking calmly to a
passerby, he'd just been doing a job, and was simply explaining the
situation, as if he were apologising for a roadworks. That is the scary
thing - though perhaps it should not surprise us. Most of the
perpetrators of such horrific acts in history have no doubt gone about
their work in just such a businesslike spirit.
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