The Devil's Double

I was watching The Devil's Double on Netflix yesterday. I didn't get to finish it, but I did get to see some of the heinous, violent acts that Uday Hussein committed while his father, Saddam Hussein, was in power. I always wonder about the motives of a person when I see violent crimes committed, like their childhood experiences and the parental neglect. I always wonder what it takes to make a monster. In Uday's case, the unlimited power that he probably possessed while growing up led to his psychotic behaviors. Every one of his sinful whims were satisfied at an early age, leading him to kidnap underaged girls, rape them, and killing anyone and everyone who did not please him. What a sick person!

On Friday morning, a brilliant science student named James Holmes came into a darkened movie theater and blasted around 70 rounds of bullets. He killed 12 people and injured around 60 more. It was written in the newspaper that he had no motive for the massacre. I wonder what was in his mind. Why would he go on a shooting rampage likes this? Were there any telltale signs of a mass murderer while he was growing up? What kind of demons was he wrestling with? He said that he was the Joker, did media shape him into this monster then? Quite possibly. If power is not kept in check, it will only escalate in the wrong possible way. Anyone with unchecked power can and will seek violence and other vile acts. It's fitting for parents, teachers, and society to put restraints on people so that they don't fall victims to psychosis.

Morales is something that I question to. Is it originally built in us or do we have to learn it. The more that I think about it, I think it's built in us by teacher of our lives. We are born pure, seeing things black and white. As we grow, grays come into the picture and we learn to slowly differentiate the degrees of gray and what is acceptable and what is not. Some people just never learns this. Either they have no good teacher to show them the way or they neglect every possible warning and advice. Uday Hussein and James Holmes snowballed into becoming monsters. They probably started out small monsters, bruising their conscious and neglecting their teachers. Sin wasn't kept in check. They got drunk on their own sense of power and brilliance. They then devalued life and became murderers.