The fiendish side of society.

Yes, the world is full of fiendish people. That torture. And kill. Just for the fun of it. A form of entertainment. But also, a way for them to express their hatred of people. That don't think like themselves.  Sometimes, it's a religious thing. As if they are doing the fiendish acts. To please their god. Of course, they are sick people. They get their kicks. From watching someone being burned alive. Or having their victims kneel. To have their heads chopped off. Some of us 'civilized' people abhor such acts. And we get holier than thou about it. Forgetting that our civilized society tortures, too. At Abu Grave. And atrocities in the name of war. Think about it. When the Ku Klux Klan lynched black people. For the thrill of it. And I remember going South in the 1960s. For work. And saw racial segregation. And the daily fiendish maltreatment of black people. Wasn't so long ago, too, that the well-educated and 'civilized' Germans. Herded Jews to the gas chambers. And starved them to death. In concentration camps. And look at the platforms of our own political parties. Parts of which seem designed by fiends.  I'd even venture to say that there may be a fiend or two on  the U.S. Supreme Court. But then, a fiend is in the eye of the beholder. Rarely does a fiend recognize himself/herself as a fiend. --Jim Broede