Post by k151 on Nov 19, 2009 2:18:08 GMT -5
Hopefully you all remember me, I haven't been here for quite awhile. 
Anyhow, I'll get right into my rant. Sometimes I really don't like people.
I'm not always a misanthrope. I sometimes get in moods where I'm immensely proud of the human race. I sometimes sit in awe of what we have done.
But for the last few days, I've been reading about Sylvia Likens and other victims. For anyone that doesn't know;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens
The whole story can be found here.
www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/young/likens/1.html
To summarize; the poor girl was tortured and brutalized in nearly every conceivable way for several weeks in 1965, which ultimately led to her death. Who was responsible? A train wreck of a woman, her kids and some kids living in the neighborhood. Some of the kids were as young as 10-12 years old. The woman was "looking after" Sylvia and her sister in exchange for $20 per week from Sylvia's parents.
The woman, Gertrude, was mainly responsible for the whole situation. However, some of the kids were worse than Gertrude when it came to the actual torture. The kids would gleefully burn and kick Sylvia. I needn't go into all the details, they are out there if you really want to know. I was born over 2 decades after Sylvia died, but I still cry over her murder. I still wish I could go back to 1965 and save her. I wish, at the very least, I could go back and comfort her and tell her she is loved.
Sylvia's murder is peculiar for the fact that it was done by children, many of them female, and was dragged out for so, so long. But she isn't the only person tortured to death, not by a long shot. As I type this now, people are getting tortured. People have been tortured since humans have been in existence. Just recently, there was the story of a girl being repeatedly raped just outside a school. What the fuck is wrong with us?!
WHY? WHY do we do this? Not all of the people involved in Sylvia's murder were sociopaths. None of them lived particularly evil lives prior to Sylvia's murder.
What could have compelled them to turn on this poor, innocent girl so suddenly and viciously?
The same might be said of the rapists of that girl. Had the situation not come about, would they all have eventually raped someone else? I don't think so.
Sylvia's murder, and evil in general, just makes me hate the human race. I hate people, because I know we are all capable of evil to some extent. It's not enough that humans have a tendency towards violence, in the sense of "I shot him and he died", but there's also people thinking "I tortured her to death. I enjoyed seeing her suffer. I was filled with joy at the sight. Seeing a defenseless girl fighting for her life makes me so happy."
Why are we so terrible to each other? I can't stop thinking about all this, and I just keep feeling more despair.
I know this isn't a very nice topic, but I'm just so upset about the whole thing.
Anyhow, I'll get right into my rant. Sometimes I really don't like people.
I'm not always a misanthrope. I sometimes get in moods where I'm immensely proud of the human race. I sometimes sit in awe of what we have done.
But for the last few days, I've been reading about Sylvia Likens and other victims. For anyone that doesn't know;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens
The whole story can be found here.
www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/young/likens/1.html
To summarize; the poor girl was tortured and brutalized in nearly every conceivable way for several weeks in 1965, which ultimately led to her death. Who was responsible? A train wreck of a woman, her kids and some kids living in the neighborhood. Some of the kids were as young as 10-12 years old. The woman was "looking after" Sylvia and her sister in exchange for $20 per week from Sylvia's parents.
The woman, Gertrude, was mainly responsible for the whole situation. However, some of the kids were worse than Gertrude when it came to the actual torture. The kids would gleefully burn and kick Sylvia. I needn't go into all the details, they are out there if you really want to know. I was born over 2 decades after Sylvia died, but I still cry over her murder. I still wish I could go back to 1965 and save her. I wish, at the very least, I could go back and comfort her and tell her she is loved.
Sylvia's murder is peculiar for the fact that it was done by children, many of them female, and was dragged out for so, so long. But she isn't the only person tortured to death, not by a long shot. As I type this now, people are getting tortured. People have been tortured since humans have been in existence. Just recently, there was the story of a girl being repeatedly raped just outside a school. What the fuck is wrong with us?!
WHY? WHY do we do this? Not all of the people involved in Sylvia's murder were sociopaths. None of them lived particularly evil lives prior to Sylvia's murder.
What could have compelled them to turn on this poor, innocent girl so suddenly and viciously?
The same might be said of the rapists of that girl. Had the situation not come about, would they all have eventually raped someone else? I don't think so.
Sylvia's murder, and evil in general, just makes me hate the human race. I hate people, because I know we are all capable of evil to some extent. It's not enough that humans have a tendency towards violence, in the sense of "I shot him and he died", but there's also people thinking "I tortured her to death. I enjoyed seeing her suffer. I was filled with joy at the sight. Seeing a defenseless girl fighting for her life makes me so happy."
Why are we so terrible to each other? I can't stop thinking about all this, and I just keep feeling more despair.
I know this isn't a very nice topic, but I'm just so upset about the whole thing.
