400-plus years for rape of targeted lesbian

[nolabear]

36. When I'm in my professional mind I can be curious but I am boggled by it.

I understand that an individual can be so incredibly broken as to be something unfathomable to those of us who have empathy and think of fellow humans as deserving of care and respect. But a group, planning and carrying out an attack like that is beyond anything I can comprehend. There are horrors out there, and we're not going to fix them. The best we can do is try to provide a world that is caring enough and gives enough to its children so that the fewest number possible grow up to be that way.

And not despair. And that's hard, but I know that media flashes the extremes in front of us every day, and the vast majority of kind, ordinary human beings are never known.