Bad people and “animals”
The difference, in the minds of most of America, between Brian Nichols and the guys who wiped out Indians or the guys who carried out Jim Crow era lynching is that they were “bad people”, maybe even “very bad” people, whereas Nichols is an “animal”. It’s the drastic difference in outrage.
Joseph Duncan is a bad person for raping and killing 2 little kids, whereas Curtis L Vance, assuming he is found guilty, is an “animal”. I wonder why that is. I mean it’s brutal crimes in all cases, with horrible consequences, why are some people reduced to the level of beast so easily? How come the sadism of certain others is less bad? How do you tell when certain people are beast evil and others just regular human evil?
