What, I often wonder, drives people to such extreme behavior as:
- torturing and humiliating prisoners,
- lining a group of men, women and children up in front of a large, freshly dug trench and shooting them so their lifeless bodies topple over into it, or
- penning masses up inside fences for years without adequate food, sanitation and opportunity.
What, I often wonder, is necessary to stop such insane and ultimately useless behavior.