Rob Kall: Yes, yes. A disappointing ending to the season last night.
M.E. Thomas: I, I haven't gotten around to watching it yet. But the character of the hound is an interesting one, he, he is a villain probably. He's a villain, but also he acts in a self interest so reliably, that sometimes he's acting in his self interest in a way that benefits other characters. And they can rely on him to keep benefiting him, and then, then benefiting them because he's acting in his own self interest. So, I, I think that's a very interesting portrayal.
I think a cheap portrayal of villains, is something that I see more often in these crime procedural dramas. I mean Law and Order does a little bit better job than some of the other ones I've seen. But every time something bad happens, every time somebody does something sort of evil, they call him a sociopath. And you know, he doesn't necessarily have the traits of a sociopath, that's just the explanation. Like they're a sociopath, and you know stop end of sentence no need to explore that any more.
And I just think that is, is sort of praisey. That people will accept that as, as an explanation. Why does evil exist? And this is a very interesting question, and its one that we should constantly be asking our self. You know the banality of evil, and what is the nature of evil? And to just label it.
Rob Kall: Okay, why does it exist? Why does evil exist?
M.E. Thomas: I don't know, so I, I often think, you know I understand from my perspective, why things that I do that could be considered evil. What, what is my motivation. I have no clue about things like, I mean mob mentality but you think about things like the Holocaust right? Where even normal people, you know it can't possibly be that those were all sociopaths, the entire population of Germany that was doing and or endorsing these really horrible things, right?
Why do these things happen? Why do we get in wars with each other? You know we talk about sociopaths, it's such a micro scale, the damage that sociopaths do. And sometimes people will say, "Well it's because sociopaths are the leaders, the leaders are sociopaths, and everybody else they just trick everybody into following them". I think that's also a very sort of pat, too simple kind of explanation, very convenient to just kind of blame it on this one class of people that doesn't even represent that much, population wise, right?
I think that people, are worried about the truth in their own selves, and that they could do evil things. You watch Snapped, where people get emotional, or they get angry
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