Suppose you were a werewolf

[Zooey]

Where would the werewolf lie in this spectrum? Is it entirely animal and hence entirely innocent of wrongdoing?
If so, why did Lon Chaney always feel so guilty?

I dunno…Maybe he was a vegetarian?
Seriously, I think that a real werewolf wouldn’t care who got hurt. But then, I am inclined to think that “real werewolf” refers, in fact, to the myth that was built up around a medieval Jeffrey Dahmer/Ted Bundy. Sociopaths are remarkable in their ability to intellectually understand right vs wrong…while not giving a rip about it.

At what point would the rational, intellectual soul “disappear” and the animal soul “take over”?

It wouldn’t. There would always be a tension…If we’re talking about wolfmen. If we’re talking about evil men who behave like animals, they don’t care that they act like animals. They rather enjoy it, in fact.

Were-toads, on the other hand, don’t feel guilty. In fact, they feel distinctly righteous, for reasons explained in other posts.

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