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Do you think serial killers deserve empathy?

To some extent I think they do.

There's clearly, I mean to me there's something going on biologically that is causing them

to be this way.

How much empathy we give them is a completely different question.

I think to some extent they do deserve some empathy.

They are human beings like I don't know.

Maybe I'm too touchy-feely I don't know.

I do.

I mean, I don't, I mean, he was a great, you know, they still did what they did.

It's so horrible and awful, but it's understanding it and going back as far as childhood.

And I think that's a very, very huge factor in why a lot of these people turn out and do

the things that they do.

So I do think it's okay to emphasize a sense to a degree or at least be understanding

the idea that they didn't choose this.

And again, that's not with every case.

So, but you know, for the majority I would say definitely okay.

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