We Are Mistaken.

People Fear what they do not understand, and Hate what they cannot conquer.
  -  Fear and Hate, the two twins humanity battles continuously - and loses.

     This quite literally explains just about every rash action one person has ever imposed on another. People are cowards in that they are more than willing - they are thrilled! - to ignore truth in favor of whatever falsehood best suits their fanatical views of the world and the beings and forces within it. They hate the contradictions, the mysteries; things they cannot control.
And we are all too aware of their love of control...     The only real mystery to me is why I (and many other people) remain surprised each and every time one of our kind commits an act exhibiting this perverted nature of ours; the likes of which we, as humans, are compelled to. After all, we are what they are. Shouldn't we know that it is inevitable that, more often than not, the people around us will give in to our human, selfish instincts?
     As a matter of fact, we are less surprised when something we don't understand behaves evilly than when the very instincts we attempt to supress each and every day lead one of us to behave that way... Is this because we consider all other creatures somehow below us? Heathen, because of their differences and therefore more wild and evil? In the wild, who's to say what is evil, anyway?
Or is it because we don't understand, and therefore fear the other (admittedly more innocent) creatures, expecting the worst of them?
     We are ridiculously mistaken in our placement of trust.