PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Three girls are dead in central Washington, and the search is on for their father.
Wenatchee police say the girls’ mother called Friday saying they hadn’t returned from a custodial visit with their father, 32-year-old Travis Decker.
Nah. We label stuff good or bad for a reason, to say it’s all ‘a human thing’ is just meaningless reductionism. Of course we are capable of it. Humanity is capable of what every human has ever done, got it. He’s not me, speak for your fucking self.
I’m unable to fathom how someone is able to harm or kill their children or family. I literally cannot comprehend how someone has that in them.
That’s not the point though. The point is that this isn’t a one-off occurrence. It’s terrifying how often people end up murdering their spouse and/or children, it happens somewhere in the world every day, and has been documented to happen throughout history. Thus, it’s clear that even though most of us can’t even comprehend how anyone could do something like this, it’s reductionist to write it off as “inhuman”. It’s very clear that a terrifying amount of people have it in them to do something like this under the correct circumstances. Most of those people probably couldn’t even imagine how anyone could commit a crime like this before they themselves do it.
It’s sickening, and it’s evil, but it’s very clearly a human behaviour. I still have an urge to call it “inhuman” because the behaviour is so unimaginable to me, as it is for most people.