Comments on: Don’t whine, you deserve what you get.

By: bookwyrm

bookwyrm — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:33:34 +0000

So far as I can tell, anyone who uses the reasoning “I could have done worse and I didn’t” thinks this makes them a good person. Or at least a good enough person.

Anyone who knows they’re hurting someone and keeps doing it just because they don’t want to stop is a monster.

By: Diva

Diva — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:21:12 +0000

This is common sociopathic behavior (rationalizing that “it” really isn’t all that bad because he meant something else). He needs to be taken outback and shot. Sadly, he may get off due to insanity or Austria’s 15 year sentencing limit.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:48:31 +0000

Sociopaths, meet your leader.

By: Twistie

Twistie — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:03:59 +0000

The horrifying thing is that I firmly believe that Fritzl doesn’t believe himself to be a monster. I think he’s being honest…from a hideously twisted point of view.

From a clear point of view, obviously this man is a monster who needed to be stopped more than twenty years ago. Alas, that is now impossible, so it’s going to take a very long time to clean up after him.

But his belief in his own decency was probably a big part of why it took so long and such dramatic circumstances to learn the truth. If he had a shred of real decency in him, his guilty conscience would have ratted him out at least twenty years ago. That’s plenty of proof for me that this man is, indeed, every bit as monstrous as he’s been portrayed.

And a man who wasn’t entirely a monster would keep his fool mouth shut because he would understand his actions were monstrous.

By: Piffle

Piffle — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:50:12 +0000

I shuddered when I read that he talked about “our favorite meal” and bringing her flowers. How he felt he was saving her from herself. Absolute self-absorbtion on his part, no concern for her at all as an autonomous individual.

I think he gets a tiny, tiny bit of credit for taking his (grand)daughter to the hospital when she got sick and letting his daughter out to talk to the doctors. But it doesn’t make him a good person, not that he’ll ever be capable of understanding that.

Does anyone else wonder what might have gone on with that nineteen year old (grand)daughter? I wonder if she was being molested/raped too.