He was a knee-jerk liberal. You know, not the kind that puts a lot of thought into his convictions, but finds a cosmology and zeals the shit out of it? "Sympathy for the Devil" is blasphemy and by attempting to rationalize the mentality of the monster I required him to confront its human face. Quoth David Wong:Think of Osama Bin Laden. Did you just picture a camouflaged man hiding in a cave, drawing up suicide missions? Or are you thinking of a man who gets hungry and has a favorite food and who had a childhood crush on a girl and who has athlete's foot and chronic headaches and wakes up in the morning with a boner and loves volleyball?
Something in you, just now, probably was offended by that. You think there's an effort to build sympathy for the murderous fuck. Isn't it strange how simply knowing random human facts about him immediately tugs at your sympathy strings? He comes closer to your Monkeysphere, he takes on dimension.