"The worst of us has a mother who loved him or still does."

Sadly that isn't always true. Perhaps especially so for some of "the worst of us".
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I believe that for most of us, maybe almost all of us, the hate and the indifference we feel towards people out there we've never met is a kind of fantasy, that would fade away in face of real suffering in our presence. We play at being sociopaths, but that's not the real truth.