Lack of Empathy

Usually when people like the characters in the short story "The Lottery" cause heinous crimes they usually give the impression or make it so that they are normal or even like even the stereotypical normal which personally i think can never be achieved, People who have the mindset like the ones in the story they cover up their actions by having people perceive them as like never being a likely candidate to do something like that but when you think about it its pretty natural if your going to commit an action for you to make people think you could never be capable of doing such a thing its quite ironic when you think about it for people to pull the nice get along with everyone card when they are actually planning on murdering or taking part in strange twisted activities. Its pretty crazy for how someone to be at the point where they are going to drastically change the way they are just so they can brutalize and shock everyone is pretty hectic when people get to that point in there life they need to some seriously help