Today the wind has changed direction and smoke from the bushfires is wafting back over town, everything has a reddish hue.

The weather's starting to warm up again.

I don't feel anger towards arsonists at this point. I'm sure I will one day but I think I'm still a bit stunned. At the moment, I'm just plain curious. Who would do such a thing? How do they reach this point? Where do they come from? I hope they don't get murdered because (aside from the fact that two wrongs don't make a right) I think we really need to know who these people are. Unfortunately I doubt the one that's been charged so far will even make it to court.

I already knew about personality disorder and certain types of criminal behaviour. And I'm prepared to say some types are what I would also call 'evil'. Lack of empathy for others, a desire to hurt and kill, a desire for notoreity that overrules normal moral codes, none of which is powered by mental illness, these are types of human evil.

But even knowing that left me unprepared for the people who apparently started fires after Saturday. (And at this point you can rule out people who do not understand consequences, as we already knew the disaster was way beyond normal). I guess I somehow still believed the most cruel person would still be aghast. Or at least satisfied - how many bodies do you need? These are the truly dangerous people of our world.

Well.

It's all pretty fucked really.

It is feared more than 40 people have died as ferocious bushfires sweep across much of country Victoria and New South Wales.

Fourteen deaths have so far been confirmed in Victoria and more than 100 properties lost, as swamped fire crews battle dozens of blazes.

The cool change which promised to bring relief to struggling crews has instead brought changing winds, turning fires from extremely dangerous to deadly.


Really can't think of anything to say.