True Evil
Reading and writing comic books - particularly the superhero genre - does tend to give you a skewed and simplified perspective on good and evil. In fact, this black and white simplicity originates from their source inspiration: the creation myths of our ancestors. It used to be that a maniacal, and strangely camp doctor proclaiming that he was going to "conquer the world" was enough to show us that he was evil. But times have changed.

Watching someone, so wrapped up in their fanaticism - their religious conviction of right and wrong - behead another human being live on the Internet whilst they were still alive... now that's true evil.

Obviously the news did not broadcast all the macabre footage. They didn't need to. It was enough to watch the leader pull out a knife from behind the bound hostage, who I hope was unaware of what was going to happen.

What want on in the American P.O.W. camp was wrong. The pictures released and what they depicted was repugnant. However, it still does not come close to justifying this kind of action. Nothing ever could.