<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # So when the next impossible crime arrives and the... > So when the next impossible crime arrives and the crowd asks how a human being could possibly do such a thing, begin by rejecting the stupidity hidden inside the question. A human being did it{A human being did the unthinkable thing{ because it lies within the behavioral range of human beings, the same range that includes the symphony, the surgery and the sonnet.}} Then investigate the specifics, the brain, the disease, the psychosis, the trauma, the intent, the relationships, the opportunity, the drugs, the hormones, the culture and the circumstance, because those details determine why this particular organism crossed this particular line on this particular day. But stop pretending the line separates humanity from nature. {{There is no outside. There is only nature looking back at itself in a bathroom mirror and pretending to be surprised.}} {{The monster is not frightening because it is inhuman. The monster is frightening because nothing about being human guarantees it will not appear.}} **Source:** [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “So when the next impossible crime arrives and the crowd asks how a human being could possibly do such a thing, begin by rejecting the stupidity hidden inside the question. A human being did it because it lies within the behavioral range of human beings, the same range that includes the symphony, the surgery and the sonnet. Then investigate the specifics, the brain, the disease, the psychosis, the trauma, the intent, the relationships, the opportunity, the drugs, the hormones, the culture and the circumstance, because those details determine why this particular organism crossed this particular line on this particular day. But stop pretending the line separates humanity from nature. There is no outside. There is only nature looking back at itself in a bathroom mirror and pretending to be surprised. The monster is not frightening because it is inhuman. The monster is frightening because nothing about being human guarantees it will not appear.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-next-impossible-crime-human-guarantees-appear ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->