[quote=@Gentlemanvaultboy]
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I disagree. People can never be monsters. Whatever they do their actions are the actions of a person. To dismiss them as monsters is to not only dismiss a facet of human nature just because we find it uncomfortable to examine and try to understand, but also helps to absolves them of culpability for what they've done by turning them into something more on the level of an animal. 
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As with [@ArenaSnow]'s proposal that human beings are just animals that have seen themselves into orderly society and think their actions within are so "excusable", I am of the firm belief that people can, will be and in some cases are monsters. Just because they are a "person" does not excuse mindsets of deplorability; if that makes something else "monstrous" in a vague, overarching concept what excuse do people have? Quite frankly, none. If anything they [i]must[/i] be held [i]more[/i] accountable given they have a much greater a place to fall from and how much further low they can go.