Our callous society makes us accessories to killings of all sorts
On July 14, Norway remembered the killing of 77 people, mostly young, at a summer camp on the island of Utoya, victims of lone gunman, Anders Breivik. While the circumstances and scale of both atrocities are different, they equally show the horrific depths to which humanity can descend.
In her book, One of Us, Norwegian writer Asne Seierstad traces Anders Breivik’s life and finds, as her title suggests, that there was no inevitability to his actions. Until he committed his crimes, there was nothing to distinguish Breivik from many other young men.
