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A well-motivated, sane person could have done the bomb and started the attack on the island but only a truly insane one could have kept hunting and shooting for another hour or more.
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But by all accounts this man is the definition of sane. Rationalizing an attach such as this under the moniker of 'insane' only reduces the man's culpability and allows us the freedom to understand the events through the explanation of it being not understandable.
A more honest approach would be to digest this man's sanity committed in the context of these events. There's no shortage of evidence of perfectly sane men committing unspeakable acts of violence. Were all the men of the SS by your definition insane? I would have to think not considering the scale and depth of the organization.
All too often we associate evil with insanity but that couldn't be more wrong it does a terrible disservice to the truly insane who are by no means evil.