An awful story that probably hit me harder than it would for most because my daughter looked quite similar to Stazia when she was five years old.
Stazia's name is on a Reddit list as one of 84 victims in 66 murder-suicides in the USA in July 2018.
I try very hard to hold on to the idea that the vast majority of people are fundamentally decent and capable of empathy (as long as they don't slide down the rabbit hole dug by some self-serving slimeball psychopath spewing hate on social media, Fox or talk radio). Obviously, I know psychopaths exist, but I don't know how I'd cope with personally knowing someone who'd done something as heinous as the murderer of Stazia.
As a parent, knowing that people like the guy who murdered Stazia are walking among us does make me lose sleep, and I'm doing my best to make sure my daughter grows up being aware that there are people out there who aren't at all like the fake image they project in order to manipulate, abuse and sometimes murder people.
Is it normal to believe everyone is capable of love?
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An awful story that probably hit me harder than it would for most because my daughter looked quite similar to Stazia when she was five years old.
Stazia's name is on a Reddit list as one of 84 victims in 66 murder-suicides in the USA in July 2018.
I try very hard to hold on to the idea that the vast majority of people are fundamentally decent and capable of empathy (as long as they don't slide down the rabbit hole dug by some self-serving slimeball psychopath spewing hate on social media, Fox or talk radio). Obviously, I know psychopaths exist, but I don't know how I'd cope with personally knowing someone who'd done something as heinous as the murderer of Stazia.
As a parent, knowing that people like the guy who murdered Stazia are walking among us does make me lose sleep, and I'm doing my best to make sure my daughter grows up being aware that there are people out there who aren't at all like the fake image they project in order to manipulate, abuse and sometimes murder people.