From Pragertopia: “Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapping monster, tries to justify himself with a litany of excuses: he’s sick like an alcoholic; he has an obsession with pornography; he was abused as a child; his ex-wife ruined him.”
There’s nothing unusual in what Castro did with his excuses. We all seek to justify our behavior in line with our values and we don’t rest until we can rationalize everything.
Dennis Prager writes: “As a general principle of life, we are what we do. If we do overwhelmingly good things, we are good; and if we do monstrous things, we are monsters. Perhaps most people are in the middle, and cannot — and should not — be easily judged. But if Ariel Castro isn’t a monster, then no one is a monster, and no one is good.”
