Well, Peter, as I said about how we demonize people: We find a fault in them that we don't have and then we state that fault in a way that makes it really sound outrageous.

Nobody in his right mind "knowingly harbor(s) criminals who rape children," if you put it in those words. But you can take what actually happened and put a bit of "spin" on it, and make it sound really bad. And the result is that you can justify characterizing the other person as a demon.

Most of the time, people do things for what they see as valid reasons. Their reasons may actually have no validity and what they do may be "objectively wrong" - but most of the time, they don't see it that way.

-Joe-