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The documentary is terrifying for more than one reason.

First the damage of the brain


because of a ideology (to kill the communists).
Second, the way our behavior changes, after we did something.
Third, the way our brain tries to coops with atrocitiates. The fact that we have to live
with what we did, we have to coop with our past, reshapes our behavior
The impact of an ideology – the fact that they divided humanity in just two classes,
those who are good and those who are bad, allowed him to do those attrocities.
The impact of what we see - The impact of horror scenes movies/sadistic movies to the
brain. They said they inspired in their torture from movies, but than they did much more. The
fact that they saw those horror scenes made built them unsensible and indifferent to human
suffering. „We were more cruel then the movies”
The way they talked about the act of killing. They didn’t have any remorse. They talked
about people and the way they killed them, as if they talked about a piece of paper, or about an
object.
The impossibility to empathize with those who begged for their life. When a mother
collapses at your feet and begs for her life, you can’t be indifferent.
The repetition of an act – killing. Maybe they had some remorse in the beginning. But, in
order to survive, mentally, they had to argue that this is a good thing – what they are doing.
Even if they did that, even if they justified the killing their brain, their human nature
brings back to them the horrors of those doing; the fact that they had nightmares tells me that
the brain is still in pain because of what they did; also their drinking to forget what they did.
Our brains don’t have the architecture to be indifferent to killing. It reacts.
A repetitive laugh. In a strange way, they are smiling and laughing. It’s not a natural,
normal laugh, but as if they are not aware of it.
They are not horrified by what they did, but by their clothes, or by the way their hair
looked.
“We don’t have much education. We are drop outs. There are people like me all over
the world.” The justification of their doings with the fact that there are people like them all over
the world. So I’m not guided by a moral principle (not to kill), but by the fact that other people
do what I’m doing.
What means to have authority without
“You feel hunted because your mind is week.”
“It’s all about finding the right excuse, not to feel guilty.”

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