#sorry i’ve just been reading a lot of shit esp about serial killers | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

cowboytism · 2 years

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people that automatically jump to barry berkman and walter white and characters like them being psychopaths because they’ve killed people are literally so reductive. as if murderers as a subsection of our population can just be written off as having “bad brains” so we don’t have to look at what their reasons might have been. not to justify their actions, but to be able to know the different things that would lead someone to doing these things BEFORE they do them. but people just don’t want to think about it, even in FICTION, because if these people aren’t otherized as monsters, if they’re just people, then that means any one of us could be criminals if our circumstances were different. and that’s too scary for some people to think about.

#breaking bad #brba #barry hbo #barry berkman #walter white #sorry i’ve just been reading a lot of shit esp about serial killers #and i’m a big believer in prison abolition but that obviously requires you to face harsh realities about people #nobody is a monster. we’re all people #and it’s difficult to say how much agency we all have because we barely know anything about the brain #it’s just fascinating to me that people will cut off all empathy from anyone who’s done gruesome shit #as if empathizing means you condone their actions???#NO!!!#if we never understand what drives people to do shit like this #we will never be able to effectively prevent violence like this

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