What Makes People Tick?

  This is what broke me.  Silly fool me, I figured I'd 'catch up' on what's happening in the world by checking Twitter (I mean X) before heading to bed, a few days ago. I saw this report on how women had been raped by the Hamas terrorists on October 7th. Not just one rapist, but many. Not just a man or multiple men using their body parts to do the rape, but evidence that they used other things as well. I believe the report mentioned knives, and other things too. Evidence that women were alive when that happened, or alive for at least part of it.  It broke me. It made me scared to go to sleep in my own bed. Scared because I was worried that I'd have nightmares based on what I'd read, and scared because being asleep means being unable to run from possible attackers. No, I'm not in Israel. But I'm still a woman, and there are fanatics the world over. Fear isn't necessarily rational, it just is. Let me be honest: As a person and as a human being, this re...