Being evil or being a victim.
I have long been wondering if there exists such a thing as pure evil. I am keen to think that there is no such thing as pure evil that exists in a person from childbirth to death. Do you follow me? like I kind of tend to think that the ‘pure evil’ we sometimes describe certain people with is something that has been grown in them through experiences and traumas they’ve experienced. In thinking so, often the criminal becomes the victim and most people cannot accept that, so often when I venture into a discussion of this topic I am often deemed weird or ‘phsycopathlover’.
If we look at harry potter, my all-time favorite book series. Lord Voldemort is probably the closest we can get to a character being seen as pure evil. But there are many factors in Lord Voldemort’s life that leads me to think that it is not his fault at all.
Like he was born motherless and fatherless in an orphanage, not only that but an orphanage that seems kinda dodgy… like there was no love at all, I think I read that it was with a lot of children so little lordy didn’t get the attention a child needs to thrive. He was the odd one out, not popular and bullied… he shows early signs of being a psychopath (not showing remorse or feelings towards harming people) he seems to have no continence. He goes on a killing spree, killing muggles that so resemble the farther who abandoned his mother and his unborn self. I think Lord Voldemort is misunderstood he is just very unfortunate, his life started going to hell the moment he was born. He is deep down very guilt ridden because his mother died giving birth to him (i. e. he thinks he killed his own mother) his dad left him before he was even born… then he goes and discovers that he is a wizard and his father is a muggle… hatred is easier than forgiveness. He becomes a muggle killer, had he had a sense of remorse he would not have gone as far as he had… but psychopathy is an illness and not something the victim is in control of, and it saddens me that there was just no way in hell Lord Voldemort would grow up with all of these factors in play and still become a normal human being. His fate was written even before he had a chance to change.
This leads me to once again question those who swear that true evil exists in some people (often people like terrorists are seen as pure evil, I have so much to say on the topic of evil and terrorism that it’ll have to be another post entirely) because as I see it there exists no evil, only people who grow up being taught to hate, or grow up being taught nothing of acceptance and respect for others… or people like voldy who grow up without love and affection, these are the poorest souls out there because they learn nothing of love, and in substitute of the emotion of love they have hate.. and they grow up hating everyone who ever experienced the love they never had themselves…
Okay so that was way different than what I usually talk about… and I don’t feel qualified to sound this artsy fartsy, not that I am revoking what I just said… I’m just saying… I’m no psychologist. Right now I am in a dizzy haze of influenza… you know that kind of influenza where your head is spinning and you feel kind of high and whoozy. Yeah that right there is me right now, and in my haze of world spinning and delusional thinking I find myself pondering these very big questions of life… like why are there homophobes in the world… homophobia is taught by the parents… so when a homophobe verbally attacks you, you know that it was his parents who made him this way…
Man I gotta get some more sleep, I am not making sense right now.
