They are as human as we...

It shames me to see the comments calling for torture, and which say "Let hope he is getting hot pokers up his arse every night before he tries to go to bed." or which brag about bullying those who oppose this violence.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/22/un-probing-bradley-manning-detention_n_800461.html

I sometimes forget that the commenters are not monsters, they are just people trying to act like monsters. In some ways, that is scarier. In others - humanity is our nature, and trying to be something inhuman must be even harder and even more painful than trying to be someone else.