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Originally Posted by seeker1950
Ygrec's post here really hit home with me. I had just posted a thread about learning that my former stalker was dead. I knew his mother also, since they lived in my neighborhood, and there was a definite connection between the outcome of the individual I knew and the mother. Like Y's brother, this man also never held a job in his life, and was a major addict. In the years past my experience with this man, who tried to kill me, I've thought of him as "evil," primarily because I observed him manipulating so many people to fulfill his needs. Labels like "sociopath," "narcissist," but probably most accurate "psychopath." I even suspect he had committed murder.
I appreciated LynnP's mention of Manson. There are many Mansons out there, many under the radar. I no longer go around looking for evil in persons, but having past exp with someone who could be categorized as evil, I'm much more discerning.
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Dear seeker1950,
Thank you for your comment on my post on the thread "where does evil come from"? I sincerely believe that my brother Peter was capable of anything. You have no idea of the pain he inflicted on everyone around him and the total joy he experienced in that pain. That's a very harsh thing to say about one's brother, but after living a lifetime with him I hated him so much that I have no problem saying harsh things about him. If anyone, ever, was evil, he was. And he may well have been like your stalker. There really are truly EVIL people in this world. Why? I do not really know. I do know that there are people who take the greatest, most fundamental pleasure in creating pain in other people, like he did. I do not really believe that he did this out of choice. This was something his personality forced on him. He suffered (I believe) so terribly himself that he had to take it out on other people. I could well be wrong, and of course I want to give my brother every benefit of the doubt, but he could not help himself from torturing innocent people to see their pain.
Take care.