I want to add that dehumanizing evil is a dangerous rhetoric when applied to real life-no, evil people aren't monsters. They are people. They can have good traits and hopes and dreams, to say that only monsters are capable of evil harms abuse victims a ton- https://twitter.com/CohavaStarship/status/1380433005769068546

-because in a lot of cases, they believe what's happening to them isn't evil just because their abusers show their good traits from time to time. It's dangerous. Dehumanizing evil leads to people thinking that only boogeymen and witches are capable of doing horrible things-

-when in truth it can be that nice guy from the neighborhood, your teacher or classmate, your crush, anyone in your surroundings. Human beings are capable of doing evil. That's not a trait of cautionary tales, that's real life and it's horrifying.

Pushing the rhetoric that doing bad things equals not being a human is untrue and dangerous. Human beings don't do good things only. They are capable of evil. It's hard to accept that fellow humans can do bad things, so equalizing bad people to monsters is a way to escape that-

-but ultimately, it can lead to dangerous behaviors and red flags being largely overlooked by society until those same people commit horrible atrocities. We need to accept that evil people exist and that humans are capable of doing evil things.

Also, claiming that someone saying evil humans are humans and not monsters is equal to apologizing evil or sympathizing with evil is, actually, helping to normalize this dangerous rhetoric irl so please do not do that. Pretty please.