Transcript: Susan Stamberg reads thoughts and letters from...

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SUSAN STAMBERG, Host: This is Weekend Edition, I'm Susan Stamberg. Coming up, scientists offer a new way to think about violence - as a threat to public health in America. And a Somali author who saw his country's agony before it arrived.

First, it's time to get out the letter opener. Much response to Lynn Neary's ruminations on evil, last week. In Colorado Springs, Daniel Deperman [sp] writes, `I have tentatively defined evil as the inability to put one's self in another's place. From his failure of the imagination comes belittling, dehumanization and genocide. It seems that most human societies contain at least the seeds of this process.'

In Spokane, ...

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