Extremism

The investigator asked the suspect:

• Why did you kill the victim named Bé?
  The suspect answered sullenly:
• I was only clearing some rubbish out of society for it.
• Who do you call rubbish?
• People who behave with no culture and bring shame on the country's values.
• You talk as if you love your country very much, but loving your country by killing people is wrong. What is uncultured about singing karaoke?
• Do you know what it's like when the neighbours need rest to have the strength to work, and he keeps blasting karaoke through the speakers so loudly that everyone feels their heart will stop? When anyone told him to stop so the neighbours could rest, he swore at them. What is a person without manners like that living for?
• I agree Bé went too far, but not so far that you should kill him. And what about the victim named Phạ? Why did you stab him to death too?
• Why should that piece of rubbish live? Every day he threw a basket of rubbish into the drain by the road, so that when it rained the drain blocked and the street flooded. Whoever reminded him, he swore back at.
• That's an administrative offence to be fined, not a reason to kill someone.
• How long will you go on fining people before no one dares throw rubbish to block the drain?
• And the victim named Cộ? Why, just because he scraped another vehicle, did you follow him to a deserted alley and kill him?
• Because that guy disgraced the image of the nation. It was only a light scrape, but he aggressively cursed in the middle of the road, using filthy words to insult others. If a person like that is allowed to live, he spreads that filthy language to other children.
• You have made at least two mistakes. First, you seized the right of judgment from the competent authority, because only a competent state body may judge. Second, you yourself imposed the heaviest punishment of all, taking people's lives. With three victims killed like this, you will have difficulty escaping the death penalty.
  The suspect answered sullenly:
• After I die, others will go on clearing the rubbish out of society.
• You're wrong. To clear away rubbish you have to educate, not kill. To convict others yourself and punish them yourself by killing them is a dangerous, extreme way of behaving. 🧟‍♂️

When we are angry, we tend to see things one-sidedly, seeing only the other person's faults and not their good points, and we extend a small fault into a large one. Our mind is narrowed and one-dimensional, so we judge wrongly, and with a hidden inclination to cruelty within, we can easily become dangerous extremists.

If we look at extremist movements around the world, one thing they have in common is that they always condemn others excessively. They post online, march and shout in the streets, and it is all abuse and condemnation of some target. They are aggressive and try to spread that aggression to many others. Their internal talks and public presentations alike fix on condemning someone. This kind of incitement aims to stir up the anger of a credulous public. Once angry, they gang up to do wrong: beating, burning, killing...

When we watch films, we see that both villains and heroes know anger, but a villain who is angry becomes extreme, while a hero who is angry stays calm and gentle and acts within the law.
Passing through life, there really are things that make us angry and things that make us love, but we must restrain ourselves and not rush to trust our own feelings, so that feelings do not deceive us. Some things we first think are right turn out later to be wrong; some things we first think are wrong turn out later to be right. That is why the experienced are always careful about first impressions, because verifying them takes time.
The most fundamental thing is still to stay calm and act according to ethics and the law, so as to avoid mistakes, even if we tend to condemn others' mistakes first.