A conversation with my daughter about the case all over the news, postpartum depression, and why "evil" is the easier lie to tell a kid.
I like how you didn’t simplify a complex situation. Oftentimes, people don’t want to understand the unthinkable.
Exactly. I think “unthinkable” makes us reach for the simplest explanation because understanding something can feel dangerously close to excusing it. Those are two very different things
I like how you didn’t simplify a complex situation. Oftentimes, people don’t want to understand the unthinkable.
Exactly. I think “unthinkable” makes us reach for the simplest explanation because understanding something can feel dangerously close to excusing it. Those are two very different things