"psychopath murders because he can't help himself. They are perpetrating mass murder for no real immediate gain." I stared at him helplessly. "How can you do this to your neighbors? They would have to murder millions of people and for what? It's inhuman." "No, it's human," Curran said. "That's the problem. People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders. Doing as you're told." "I can't hate people that much."