{"id":8769,"date":"2025-04-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2025-04-12T13:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T17:34:39","slug":"the-anatomy-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/the-anatomy-of-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ANATOMY OF EVIL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m writing this in Texas where I\u2019m finishing up a four-week teaching tour. En route, the Evil Princess and I listened to the audio version of Dr. Michael Stone\u2019s book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3G4odmq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Anatomy of Evil<\/a>.\u201d It was, by and large, a good<s>read<\/s>\u00a0listen.\u00a0\u00a0Stone does an outstanding job of exploring the neuroscience of violent behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Replete with case studies, the book is a litany of man\u2019s inhumanity to man. For those who study this sort of thing, the author lists almost two dozen \u201ccategories of evil\u201d based on actions, diagnoses, interviews and of course, known behaviors and prior histories. This makes the book a litany of atrocious, mostly murderous acts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is lots to learn from this book.&nbsp;&nbsp;You can\u2019t defeat an enemy you don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have only two real criticisms. One is the author\u2019s belief that banning high-capacity firearms would be a good thing; I profoundly disagree.&nbsp;&nbsp;Lawbreakers, by definition, tend not to be deterred by new laws for them to break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other is that the author never once mentions something that screams out to people like me and most who read this blog:&nbsp;<em>The vast majority of these monsters\u2019 victims would very likely be alive today had they been armed and capable of fighting back in self-defense.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing this in Texas where I\u2019m finishing up a four-week teaching tour. En route, the Evil Princess and I listened to the audio version of Dr. Michael Stone\u2019s book \u201cThe Anatomy of Evil.\u201d It was, by and large, a goodread\u00a0listen.\u00a0\u00a0Stone does an outstanding job of exploring the neuroscience of violent behavior. Replete with case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8771,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions\/8771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}