This is so disturbing on so many levels. The countries of Norway, Finland and Sweden carry many of the same attributes to Canada - safe, stable, with strong social programs. Terrorism in Norway is not an immediate thought for me. Then add the second event of a fake cop rampage (and video included below), and you have more more multiple (senseless) deaths.
My father said to me some time ago in response to the question from me: I don't understand how people can do that (serial murder at the time) - he said, you can't understand it because you do not think like them. I have since learned (at least one component of) the deep meaning of that statement. It's all about perspective. And everyone, everywhere, at any time - perspectives are all very different.
It has a always amazed me how one can recall an event in ones past and no two individuals have the same recollection - different perspective each and every time. As has been said elsewhere, a thought itself is immediately outdated, because circumstances have changed, however minutely, since the thought was originally born. Brings a whole new perspective to living in the moment. But I digress.
So I still say the same (new)thought now. I don't understand. I don't understand what a person's life must have been to develop a personality, a manner of being that can reconcile the behaviour with the consequences. Some of it might be hard wired, but I think the character of one's upbringing also makes every bit of difference - we still are creatures of habit. So who wants the Prime Minister of Norway dead? And wants it enough to perpetrate today's terror. I don't understand.
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