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[peratic]

What makes someone a monster?

Specifically, what traits or acts would cause you to consider someone a monster? I'm not interested in speculative tragic background stories.

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[peratic]

So there is a blitheness to a monster, in your opinion — monsters can move among us without caring what they've done, but non-monsters who have committed similar acts but regret them are a different story?

[echopraxia]

I think it's easy and tempting to think of monsters at all, when monstrosity is perpetrated, still, by people.

[peratic]

[ that seems, to gisela, like a slight derail from what was initially said (which has her still curious), but she accepts it. ]

Do you think it's used as an excuse for their behavior? Not just by those who would call an individual a monster, but by the so-called monster themselves?