Todays news included more violence in Iraq with the spectacle of dragging bodies throught the streets.

After reading quite abit about the conflict in Somalia and now Iraq I am always left wondering about how low the human condition can sink when people think that defiling dead bodies is a a way to celebrate a triumph against anyone. Is it the case that anyone of us could sink this low if given the proper stimulus and context, or is this the kind of behaviour that can only result from an upbringing in a society where hatred and de-humanization is justified from a very early age.

I don’t know exactly how to answer this question as there have been some cases of similiar crimes in therecent history of the U.S. motivated by racial and sex-preference hatred. Thankfully, those perpetrators were prosecuted. I hope the perpetrators in this case come to justice as well.

It’s hard to even comprehend the horror that humans sometimes visit upon each other at times.

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