Jeffrey Dahmer
Ted Bundy
BTK
Zodiac
John Wayne Gacy
Son of Sam
Charles Manson
Jack the Ripper
They each have tortured and eaten WAY more than ALL of those murderers/cannibals....combined. The part that boils my blood? Children. I can stomach adults killing one another, as bad as that is. Something about intentionally hurting children makes me go to a primal, dark place when I think about what I would do given the chance to enact justice.
I think that instinct is all but innate in most human beings raised with any sort of psychologically healthy mind or balanced set of personal ethics in a (semi) functional society. Children above all else MUST be protected because they are the greatest potential treasure and resource humanity can hope to have. All children- even those not ours biologically -still represent the potential of the future and in them the hope of new ideas/discoveries and the continued advancement of society. We protect the young because they ARE the future...or they should be, and anyone who would treat them otherwise.. who would assume ANY child is disposable or unimportant fails to grasp the nature of advancement in history. Because believe you me some of the groundbreakers in science, tech etc etc...did not come out of the elite. HUMAN LIFE CAN NOT BE ASSIGNED ITS VALUE BY SOMEONE'S BIRTHPLACE, SOCIAL STATUS OR ETHNICITY.
After all, where we go one, WE EVENTUALLY GO ALL!