God, I really wish life was as simplistic as some people think.
"It’s much easier to think that Ian Brady was evil, because he is then not someone like ‘us’,” says Coline Covington, the forensic psychologist and author of Everyday Evils, a Psychoanalytic View of Evil and Morality. “What’s difficult is to identify with him in any way – [to recognise] that we may all at least have fantasies of torturing and killing, although most of us don’t act on them. We project whatever is evil and sadistic on to the criminal so that we can remain unsullied and pure."
Doesn't bear thinking about it does it? No wonder so many of us stop thinking.
Rest of article here:-
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/16/ian-brady-myra-hindley-biblical-notion-of-evil-haunt-british-psyche-moors-murders