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There are times when it is good to have a clinical psychopath in your life!

ENDING WITH AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL POTENTIAL SERIAL KILLERS OUT THERE! - A Disclaimer, I AM NOT A DOCTOR!

By Ross E Fortune LombardiPublished 3 years ago 12 min read
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The Scream inside...

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There are times when it is good to have a clinical psychopath in your life!

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OR

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(When “Bad” mental health turns “Good”)

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INTRO

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Does the very idea of meeting a psychopath scare you?

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What about meeting one when you are vulnerable and in a weekend state?

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You might be very surprised to know that when you are seriously ill or injured or even helpless is the one time you really want to meet a psychopathic stranger!

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Especially if that stranger has an array of sharp knives!

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Because if you need hospital surgery you best surgeon is most likely to be on the Psychopath greyscale.

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And the more skilled the surgeon the more likely and more deeply they are to be further up and along with that scale!

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Because the term psychopath is misused and twisted an absolutely insane amount!

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Now, that the intro out the way lets gets to the heart of this article.

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I am going to cover several types of commonly misunderstood atypical mental health states (a type of thinking that are not perceived as “Normal”) and discuss how in the “Correct context” they are a vital need of our society.

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It is just taking the right person with the right training in the right job.

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You need the right tool for the right job.

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You would not use a hammer when you need a screwdriver!

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You need to understand what sort of “Tools” people are.

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BUT FIRST!

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The Disclaimer.

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I AM NOT A DOCTOR!

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Despite the medical profession's obsession with categorising and diagnosing people.

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People in the real practical non-ivory tower world are far more complex.

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There is no you are “this” or “this” in the real world, only degrees of multiple spectrum grey.

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If People were houselights, then their mental states and conditions are dimmer switches, not flick switches

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As a very trite oversimplification.

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I am a very different person before my first-morning coffee that I am afterwards.

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And that is just day to day moment to moment, that has not even touched on the “Nurture” part of the equation!

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The same child with exact same Psychopathic architecture to their brain will grow up very differently in a broken abusive home than the home of parents that push them towards medical or law school!

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Psychopaths and Sociopaths.

And other ASPD type individuals

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We all see the classic Media portrayed Psychopath flying into an incandescent rage, knife in hand wildly stabbing.

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But being a psychopath really means a lack of an ability to feel not only empathy for others but also any full intensity of emotion at all!

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They are less emotional, and more rational and think more strategically and dispassionately that the rest of their fellow man.

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Exactly the way a brilliant surgeons mind could work.

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I am not saying that all good surgeons are psychopaths But

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I am saying that if you are in medical school and are able to already see a fellow human body as a mere bioengineering problem to be fixed instead of having to “man up” when cutting into living flesh for the very first time, Then you will have a significant advantage over your none psychopathic fellow students!

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BAD PSYCHOPATHS AND SOCIOPATHS!

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Would fall into the,

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“It is nothing personal it is just business”

category of person,

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Saying the above when they are doing something terrible to you.

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Hyper Empaths.

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NO! Not a type of weird mutant comic book X-men thing,

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But instead from a clinical perspective.

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The exact opposite of Psychopaths.

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They feel EVERYTHING!

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They feel more and deeper and far more intensely.

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They can not either help it or "Turn it off"

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They cannot properly "Filter" their emotional input or output the way the rest of their fellow humans can!

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(I heavily suspect I fall into this range.)

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These sorts of people potentially make the best actors, writers artist and councillors.

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BAD HYPER EMPATHS

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These are the classic nut jobs stabbing people at random or going “Postal” in a classroom.

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They unfortunately simply have never been given the proper guidance to help maintain proper emotional control and their rage becomes all-consuming!

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CURSED OR BLESSED WITH BOTH!?

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It may seem to counter-intuitive but there is a case for some to very rarely be “sorta” both

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It is hard adequately explain without tuning a slightly glib blog article into to full-blown dull under qualified medical essay but I will try and finish some examples.

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Basically, these are the leaders (both evil and good).

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They are extremely empathic and can fully understand how you think and feel better than you know yourself, and still not be able to “give a dam” about you, despite that!

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They feel strongly passionate enough to drive themselves to work to death because they care more deeply than others, to the point of getting emotional obsessive,

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But

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They are also able to make the horrendously immoral calls and decisions and sacrifices (both of other fellow humans and personally) for what they may see “As the greater good”,

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THE GREATER GOOD?

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What actually is “The greater good” will never really be known in our lifetime but can only be judged those give the perspective of history, and even then only with any a distance or a 100 years or more to give a decent chance of non-emotional analysis.

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Be a bit cautious of all those (including me, because I am certainly no saint) that claim domain overall knowledge of correct morality.

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Anyone that arrogant and certain of themselves, with little or no self-doubt, will be just as willing to sacrifice You as themselves!

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And they will not understand why your family have not wanted to thank them for giving you the “Gift” of being made into a “Martyr” or “War Hero”

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Martyrs, War Heroes, Sacrifices, it all the same corpse and grieving family, the labels chosen are just a mere exercise in semantics.

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REMEMBER!

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Just because you are a Psychopath or Sociopath does not mean you have to be “Evil”

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I often try and give examples of “Good” Nut Jobs,

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Quite often it takes a psychopath or sociopath to do “What needs to be done” in circumstances that would permanently emotionally damage and scar a normal person.

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If we grow in a loving non-abusive home, (Or are helped to rehabilitate) we can be your heros rather than your villains!

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Because we can automatically be willing to make the cold, logical, emotional judgement calls that are sometimes, unfortunately, needed!

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Humanity is a group, heard or pack species.

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Like wolves, ants or antelope.

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We have a specialised “Function” within the human herd, group or pack.

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We are needed for humanity to survive itself.

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NOTE:

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By “Function” I am not implying any form of superiority or “Natural leadership” role.

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We are most definitely NOT your “betters” or “Higher Human Caste”,

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Humanity should have learned by now that we Nut Jobs should NEVER be allowed to be you, social leaders!

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EVER!

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When you have this “Disability” it is very easy to fall into this dangerous self-delusion in order to feel less inadequate and disconnected!

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The

“I can not connect properly with these inferior puppets”

bullshit type thinking.

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We are NOT superior we are merely Dysfunctional!

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If we are anything, then we are instead, in many ways Inferior, to a normal person.

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By “function”, I am thinking more along the lines of a temporary onsight captain in an emergency disaster situation, that is packed back away once the immediate emergency is over!

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Nothing more!

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I AM MERELY ONLY "TOTAL TOOL"!

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It is very important to pack away all your “tools” when you no longer need them, until next time!

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“Genuine psychopath?" and “carefree none-planfulness"?

“Genuine psychopath?”

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As much as medical professionals LOVE their boxes.

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Allot of treatment time is wasted on finding the ”Right Box” rather than “treatment”

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Lets me try and put it this way.

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Humans say that water and normal sea level air pressure boils as 100 c

(There are many things that can stop this being constant but just go with it for simplicities sake.)

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Except for one tiny problem.

Water does NOT REALLY boil at 100c

IT NEVER HAS!

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While H2O is Real

And while air pressure is real.

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The number 100 is not.

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We created math to try and express the universe.

There is nothing wrong with that.

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That is perfectly fine,

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BUT

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ONLY if you realise that such measurements are ONLY tools and are not in themselves “Real”

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(Plus logarithms would suggest that our entire mathematical foundations being in Base 10 might be highly flawed and be holding us all back!)

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(Maybe we should be using a Base that means when we add 1 and 1 it equals 2 exactly instead of 2 and a bit!)

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THE POINT BEING.

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Medical health diagnostics are to people what the number 100 is to measuring water temperature.

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THE POINT BEING

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That measurements and mental health boxes for people work only as a rough tool.

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They are useful….

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They are NOT sacrosanct!

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Raw chaotic nature does not give two flying shits about your world view or your plans.

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It does not think anything!

It just “IS”!

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You can not expect a “one size fits all box” for a human mind!

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I have nothing but respect for doctors and their studies, experience and knowledge,

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However, at the end of the day, they are all only people.

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And the some of the ‘less bright’ ones tend toward the bad habit of “Clinging” to their medical journals like a Zealot holding a Faith Icon while in a sinking boat in a hurricane, instead of reaching for the flare gun and life jackets!

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MY ADVICE!

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While it may be “well known, psychopaths are individuals who act more methodically, coldly, calculatingly, and less impulsively. According to the PPI-R,”

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There will be plenty that may not,

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Or worse still, those playing on the ego of doctors by giving them what they expect rather than what may be real.

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MY ADVICE TO YOU!

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Consider all medical mental health diagnosis as only mere guidelines, as only a mere starting point, instead of considering them and hard and fast rules, or unbreakable laws!

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Personally….?

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Personally, I just describe myself as a “Nut Job”,

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Although still mildly curious, I have mostly kinda quit trying to work out what the hell I am.

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I have started giving up overanalysing and ‘beating myself up’ about it and have decided to “Just own it” instead!

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AND FINALLY!

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AN OPEN LETTER

TO ALL POTENTIAL SERIAL KILLERS

OUT THERE!

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Violence is not Clever or Glamorous

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It just is.

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Serial killers and Mass Murderers are NOT and NEVER will be heroes!

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They are self-deluded and do not realise what they "really are" and what little that "means"!

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They are VERY self-deluded,

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They are too immature to be capable to understand that if they killed that they would NOT be some dark misunderstood hero of their own tragic story!

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Just like all other Serial killers and Mass murderers,

They would only be a pathetic weak-willed loser!

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I know exactly what they would "really be" and how little that meant!

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Violence is dirty and shit!

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Friedrich Nietzsche Was an Idiot!

(So was Niccolò Machiavelli)

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Empathy is the Real, strength power!

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Not ruthlessness.

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Ruthlessness is the weakness.

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Mortality is not a limiting cage,

But instead, gives a sense of purpose and meaning!

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As a species, we evolved social skills and ability to act as a group that far surpasses all other self-aware species!

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The bones of this mental tool kit are Empathy!

(Which should be taught more as a skill in schools!)

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Empathy is NOT just a wishy-washy fluffy idea,

It is an ability to visualise, plan and manage a group dynamic!

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It is a vital part of team building!

(In the face of pending human-environmental extinction, we are desperately going to need super-effective "Teamwork")

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The reason you lot out there do not give these things their proper value, is because you seem to have it endlessly on tap and take it for granted!

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I see dipshit (mostly Men) cling and bark and brag about how "Hard" they are and feeding delusional egos with the poisonous idea that an ability to be Violent is somehow a good thing!

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And I cannot correct them because that would be like trying to explain Nuclear Physics to a Squirrel!

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There is no such thing as a Nietzsche "Superman"!

Only fellow sad individuals living a half-life wishing they could feel the warmth and light "Normal People" are taking for granted!

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And you seem to think the hidden monsters are lucky!

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You make "things" like Gangsters such as "Al Capone" or "The Krays",

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Killers such as "Jeffrey Dahmer" or "Manson" into counter-culture heroes when you should me elevating people like...

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Dr Martin Luther King

Or

Mohandas Gandhi.

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...INSTEAD!

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How stupid can you lot possibly be!

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Hold, love, and Care for each other,

Let go of all the Hate and the stupid barriers you put,

Such as

Race, Gender, Faith, Football Teams and all the other crap that never really mattered that you hold between yourselves!

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Not just because it is the right thing to do!

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DO it because YOU CAN.

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Do it because others CAN NOT!

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About the Creator

Ross E Fortune Lombardi

Writer. Gamer, Goth

A (Constantly Failing To Be Funny) satirist!

[email protected]

Mutare non est meum

Cantus moriar

BLOG:

http://lombot.co.uk

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