Where Angels Fear
1 min readDec 9, 2018

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Many, yes … and compassion is, I believe, the greatest of human virtues.

But …

Those with ‘Cluster B’ personality disorders are all but irredeemably the way they are — and I only say ‘all but’ because I must, logically, do so because it is not their fault that they were born/made that way … and also because we may yet, one day, find a cure for them (or rather for ourselves), so we should strive for that rather than simply taking the easy way out of our predicament.

So, I cannot, unfortunately feel any more compassion for them than to accept we cannot simply decide we will eliminate them from our midst by way of execution ¹ and can only, therefore, lock them up for life instead.

Compassion, I have … but no empathy or sympathy for their ilk — they have no conscience, feel no remorse and, to them, another’s tears are, at best, merely water … at worst something in which they take delight.


¹ Although, in fact, ‘execution’ is not really the proper term when it comes to them, I feel: it would no more be execution than it is when we put down an incurably rabid animal, but rather a necessary evil resulting from their untreatable condition — when a doctor prescribes medicine to cure a viral or bacterial infection, they are not executing the virus/bacteria, but simply annihilating it/them in order to preserve their patient’s life.

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Where Angels Fear
Where Angels Fear

Written by Where Angels Fear

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die.

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