<P>I warn my students about the possibility that "sane people can do terrible things" and I also warn them about "morality by body count."</P>
<P>The shooter in Virginia seems to have been insane, and therefore his actions become more comprehensible: but when you look at the 3 worst killers in human history, all in the 20th century, (Mao, Stalin, and Hitler), there is little indication that they were clinically insane. We want to believe that only an insane person can kill so many millions of people, but while we can agree that the 3 dictators were probably not normal, they were <EM>not</EM> insane, i.e. detached from reality by hallucinations. </P>
<P>In the end killers are killers: the body count and the "reasons" for their crimes are irrelevant. People still make excuses for Mao and Stalin: Mao is something of a sainted icon among people who don't know his crimes.</P>
<P>At such times we see the value of escaping to the Duckburg Universe and others! </P><BR>
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