I have spent too many years working in and around police, fire, combat and combat support systems to think anything other than everyone that I have met has a point to which, if pushed, will not only push back, but will do so with extreme hostility.
I have met grandmothers that served with the OSS, I have shaken hands with SWAT and Delta force. I have interviewed prisoners who were normal until they were pushed. My experiences are perhaps unique, but I firmly believe that everyone -EVERYONE- has the capacity for being a savage. I further believe that it is only a very thin veneer of “civilization” that keeps the anger in check.
Sorry, I simply will have to disagree.
I think there is a difference between murder (especially mass murder) aND being in a war self-defense situation.
I have no doubt that if provoked I would defend my family, and I could kill someone. I also wouldn’t call it murder. Murder is different than killing.
However, I have no doubt that I would never plan an attack on innocent people.