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It's something I have thought about for quite some time. I love those shows on ID (Investigation Discovery) called Most Evil, about Serial Killers, their background, etc.
Dr. Stone made a "scale of evil" to determine what is the most evil. It is very interesting and it got me thinking (scary, I know). Does real "evil" exist? We can explain what we think are evil things by pointing to terrible acts and labeling it, but I am trying to define evil as a separate entity. Something that just exists. Would Ed Gein have done those terrible things regardless of his circumstance and upbringing or was he absolutely thrust into it because of his overbearing mother? I mean, I've read his biography. She was intent on not allowing him pre-marital sex and once may have pushed him down the stairs. Does that qualify as an upbringing that would most certainly lead to becoming a serial killer?
The list of things they found ole Ed involved in seems...well...hard to believe...
When police arrived at his Wisconsin farmhouse in the late ‘50s, they found a vast collection of meat art. In the woodshed of the farm was the naked, headless body of Bernice Worden, hanging upside down from a meat hook and slit open down the front. Her head and intestines were discovered in a box, her heart on a plate in the dining room. The skins from ten human heads were found preserved, and another skin taken from the upper torso of a woman was rolled up on the floor. There was a belt fashioned from carved-off nipples, a chair upholstered in human skin, the crown of a skull used as a soup-bowl, lampshades covered in flesh pulled taut, a table propped up by a human shinbones, and a refrigerator full of organs. The four posts on Gein’s bed were topped with skulls and a human head hung on the wall alongside nine death-masks – the skinned faces of women – and decorative bracelets made out of human skin. The stunned searchers also uncovered soup bowls fashioned from skulls, a shoebox full of female genitalia, faces stuffed with newspapers and mounted like hunting trophies on the walls, and a "mammary vest" flayed from the torso of a woman. Gein later confessed that he enjoyed dressing himself in this and other human-skin garments and pretending he was his own mother.
Isn't that "Evil?"
Dr. Stone made a "scale of evil" to determine what is the most evil. It is very interesting and it got me thinking (scary, I know). Does real "evil" exist? We can explain what we think are evil things by pointing to terrible acts and labeling it, but I am trying to define evil as a separate entity. Something that just exists. Would Ed Gein have done those terrible things regardless of his circumstance and upbringing or was he absolutely thrust into it because of his overbearing mother? I mean, I've read his biography. She was intent on not allowing him pre-marital sex and once may have pushed him down the stairs. Does that qualify as an upbringing that would most certainly lead to becoming a serial killer?
The list of things they found ole Ed involved in seems...well...hard to believe...
When police arrived at his Wisconsin farmhouse in the late ‘50s, they found a vast collection of meat art. In the woodshed of the farm was the naked, headless body of Bernice Worden, hanging upside down from a meat hook and slit open down the front. Her head and intestines were discovered in a box, her heart on a plate in the dining room. The skins from ten human heads were found preserved, and another skin taken from the upper torso of a woman was rolled up on the floor. There was a belt fashioned from carved-off nipples, a chair upholstered in human skin, the crown of a skull used as a soup-bowl, lampshades covered in flesh pulled taut, a table propped up by a human shinbones, and a refrigerator full of organs. The four posts on Gein’s bed were topped with skulls and a human head hung on the wall alongside nine death-masks – the skinned faces of women – and decorative bracelets made out of human skin. The stunned searchers also uncovered soup bowls fashioned from skulls, a shoebox full of female genitalia, faces stuffed with newspapers and mounted like hunting trophies on the walls, and a "mammary vest" flayed from the torso of a woman. Gein later confessed that he enjoyed dressing himself in this and other human-skin garments and pretending he was his own mother.
Isn't that "Evil?"
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