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Originally Posted by SeijiSensei
Whenever I think that fictional characters like Monster's Johan are implausible, someone like Breivik comes along to remind me that such people sadly actually exist.
I haven't paid close attention to the trial, but I'm still wondering how he can claim he picked off dozens of innocent people on that island in "self-defense." (Yes, I understand his broader argument about immigration being a threat and so forth, but "self-defense" usually carries the implication of a direct threat to you personally. I don't see how mass assassination can even vaguely be construed as self-defense as a legal argument.)
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Come to think of it, such people have experiences in their lives which made them like that. I think it is more of society's "can't-be-bothered" issue with such "ranting-and-raving" people and the lack of moderate views around him that turned him into a mass murderer.
We probably would never know about his true motivations until we meet the people around him. Social pressure is an oft-ignored factor in categorising lunatics, psychopaths and their likes; nobody really likes to have even the smallest amount of blame put on them.