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Originally Posted by Nor
Maybe I've completely misread, if so I'll apologise. Just so I can understand maybe you could answer a couple of questions.
Do you believe that he murdered all those people.
Do you think he is a nice fella despite him being a murderer.
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I think it perfectly possible to make a differentiation in this case. The murders that he committed were terrible acts, but that does not necessarily mean that in the rest of his interactions with people he was a perfectly nice guy. I was listening to a radio interview with the relative of one of his victims earlier who also happened to be one of his patients and they echoed these sentiments, that aside from the murders he was a good chap.
I do not condone these murders in anyway, but as scastle said, there may be deeper issues involved. I read that when he was rather young he had to watch his mother slowly die from a painful illness during which she suffered greatly. AFAIK (and if I`m wrong this whole hypothesis is invalid) his victims were all elderly people. Perhaps, as a result of the early trauma, he was extremely misguided and believed he was helping these people by giving them a relatively painless death.
I know that sounds very twisted, but it is possible that a traumatic experience in his youth caused him to commit acts that anyone else can see as being extremely wrong, while in his mind they were honorable acts. That would be in accordance with the comments that I have heard now from multiple people that he was, in general, a thoroughly decent chap.
This argument in no way excuses his acts, and regardless of his intentions, justice must be served. But if multiple people can say good things about him, I can`t see that all these people are somehow missing the point.