The Vampire is always fully responsible for what he does, and when he launches his attacks there is never a trace of innocence in him; on the contrary, you can recognize him easily by the very fact that his aggression is always directed toward an innocent victim, or toward someone who, in a specific situation, is nonetheless more innocent than he is. Never toward someone who is really blameworthy. According to the Vampire, it is all right to show extensive tolerance toward the guilty, but it is not all right to show compassion for the innocent, who must pay a price for being "too good" and for not being one of the cunning ones. The Vampire does not try to contest the powerful ones on earth (on the contrary, if anything he admires and courts them), but attempts instead to annihilate the best people, those who feel committed to life and not to some "circle" or system of power, those who do not feel the need for a crutch because they have within them the energy to go forward and change the world. In a sense, one can say that the Vampire is recognizable by his unmistakable tendency to assume the task of "strangling the best of the litter".

Vampirism and violence

One should not confuse vampirism with destructive violence. As we indicated above, they have radically different objectives. Harsh, aggressive violence aims for the destruction of the adversary, who must be reduced to immobility (and therefore, frequently, to physical death) because his existence gets in the way of the accomplishment of a goal. Homicidal violence destroys the husband who comes between a lover and the woman he desires, the teller who impedes access to a safe, the small neutral nation which is invaded and plundered by an army that is on its way to conquer an entirely different country.

One might say that physical violence and vampirism are resources intended to supplement one another without either taking power away from the other: brutality, physical oppression, the law of the strongest, can in fact make use of vampirism as a preliminary tool prior to invading the place of action and destroying the victim. Often, however, the contrary happens: it is violence which serves as a preliminary means to true vampiric aggression, which is always nonetheless an end in itself, since its objective is not the destruction of the adversary, but making use of him as a source of energy. If he is really forced to eliminate someone, a Vampire will do it by humiliating his victim to the end, robbing him of his last shreds of dignity. This aspect may not interest the mere criminal, while it is always of interest to the Vampire.

In humanity's past, violence was the law. Now that man's moral conscience condemns and opposes violence, the struggle against it occupies all of our anguished attention, leaving vampirism a wide margin in which to operate, since it is not as easily identifiable nor is it as contested. Violence, in fact, is something concrete: it exists or it doesn't. Vampirism is underground, a matter of opinion; it manipulates energies that we are not able to see.