Go inside the mind of a killer... with sympathy? Here's what empathizing with people who've committed even the most horrible acts can show us about the society that created them.
, and other influences that led up to their behaviors, our feelings about them become more complex. Oftentimes, they are accountable for what they have done, and even deeply remorseful, which adds to the complexity of our feelings about them as well. The show humanizes them, and that’s not always comfortable for a viewer who would prefer to see them as something other than human.
One in every three US adults has a criminal record, and there are currently 2.3 million people in prison in the US. Those statistics make it almost impossible to live in the US and not know someone–or be related to someone–who has been convicted of a crime. And yet, our news, TV shows, and other media continue to portray people who commit crimes as one-dimensional, bad people who seem to be born that way and should simply be locked up for what they’ve done.
We all want to think of ourselves as “good people.” Sometimes we do that by seeing people who do bad things as “not like us,” as something other than human. We don’t want to imagine that we might be capable of committing terrible acts so we hold those people as something other than us. This reflexive “othering” is understandable, but ultimately it simply serves to make us afraid and badly informs our laws and behaviors towards people who do commit those acts. Even worse, it doesn’t stop crime.
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