{Evil at Hungerford [continued]}[21st August 1987]

[Redbook4:68][19870821:1020b]{Evil at Hungerford [continued]}[21st August 1987]

19870821.1020

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Accustomed as we are to look for a motive for crime, and to an extent to judge the evil of the offence by the nature of the motive as well as the seriousness of the act, it is sometimes hard for us to grasp the possibility of crime without apparent motive.* In a sense this is right: there is a reason for everything.

But we like to be able to connect the victim of the offence with the offender by the motive, if it is not to be classified as an accident. The principle of extreme Separation makes precisely this connection, as it encompasses the whole Universe within its scope: the action of a man like Ryan** is limited only by the limitations of the weapons available to him. His driving force is pure Anger***, directed everywhere (although he had just enough of Light left to spare the children in Savernake)****.

*As +C is detachment from self and concentration on others, so perhaps its diametric opposite A~ is detachment from others and concentration on oneself. <891001> [For consistency, the +C should probably be represented here as I~; or possibly A~ should be represented as +Mk. <20160810>]

**[The perpetrator of the Hungerford massacre – see last previous entry.]

***But one witness described him as looking like 'a frightened maniac', I think: frightened perhaps of his own possession# by the anger, and its consequences....

****[Forest.]{or perhaps he had forgotten about them.}

#{but see [[Redbook4:86-87][19871003:1650#]{Spirits}[3rd October 1987],]p.87, re possession by evil Spirits.}

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