Gunnair Gunnair:
2Cdo 2Cdo:
I'm still surprised he surrendered. I think Gunny nailed it, this fucking nutbar will make any trial a complete fiasco with some incoherent ramblings.
Another Anders Breivik. He'll have a lot to say unfortunately.
What Breivik said was anything but incoherent.
It's useless and dangerous to dismiss people that seek to hurt others as just being crazy. A bit more effort should be spend on understanding their motivations and reasoning so as to better model the behavior.
Saying they are crazy is equal to saying it was god's will that the building fell down.
I can understand the emotional motivation to class those people as being insane, and by inference unlike me or the people I know and like. But the reality is that most often these are sane people that have just reached a different conclusion and decided to take different actions.
This guy could be totally criminally insane and unable to tell right from wrong or understand why his actions are unacceptable. But the simple act of running away and hiding gives good evidence that he was still able to make the logical connection between killing people and negative results for himself if caught.
It's in the public's interest to not brush away the actions of violent people as being crazy without a much deeper look at them.