Monster
Anyone who does evil unto other bears this appelation in the press. Monster. A word which divorces him - and his misdeeds - from the genus 'homo', and therefore all upstanding citizens. The terminology thus employed presumes that humanity in general is somewhat removed from such acts, whatever they may be - and yet, its scions repeat them, over and over, generation after generation... Semantically dehumanizing their miseeds ignores the wretched depths to which our clade can descend, and trivializes our ability to rise above.

Best just to call them 'human', and accept the fact that the species, as a whole, has some serious flaws which need addressing. 'Monster' is a sop to the soul, a sad, wilfully-ignorant assumption that these people were somehow born bad. They weren't. They may *be* bad, and must be punished as such - but they're not monsters. They're human, fucked in duality both by their past, and their regretable inability to overcome it.

And there but by the grace of god...


Also, I hate the term 'toastie'. It's a fucking toasted sandwich.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 2:04, 1 reply)

Nope.
Its a Breville.
( Throat And Ice Pie I see dem tatties dere., Thu 15 Apr 2010, 14:08, closed)