People fear child murderers because they reveal human fragility within themselves

Evidence

What is it that we fear? Not the loss to the victim, but the loss of innocence in ourselves; not Mary outside, but Mary inside; not her loss of control, but the fragility of it in ourselves. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 500

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 500
• XREF: connects to: Our fear of child killers mirrors our own fragility of innocence and control — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 500; Phobic objects are overdetermined by infantile affect and resist rational correction — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 589

Broader Connections

• Our fear of child killers mirrors our own fragility of innocence and control #corroborates (0.95) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 500
• Phobic objects are overdetermined by infantile affect and resist rational correction #expands (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 589