This is why, no matter how monstrous their behavior, I never refer to such people as anything but human. To refer to them in any other way occludes the fact that they are, in fact, people. They are terrible people, but still they are people. To refer to them as monsters absolves men near me, or men that I care about, from their horrific behavior. By saying to myself that that sort of behavior is done by someone over there, or some "other', I end up not holding the men I know accountable for doing bad things.