Why do they hate? Why do they despise? Is it because they know the helplessness of their creaturehood, know that a random virus or a bullet can snuff out in a moment all the securities they have worshipped? So we find, each in our fashion, a way to transcend life. And those who cannot transcend through creating will eventually discover that one can also transcend it by destroying. To kill is to be above life, is it not?