This is not all: outside, lives are shattered, jobs are lost, marriages are destroyed, minds are damaged, friends and families are traumatised - often irrevocably so.
His voice faltered as he spoke of "the decimation of the mighty bison herds, the use of the poison alcohol to destroy mind and body, and the cowardly killing of women and children".
"The mortars didn't only destroy her house but destroyed her mind too".
"Tilikum is a casualty of captivity; it has destroyed his mind and turned him demented," Russ Rector, a former dolphin trainer in Fort Lauderdale who now runs the Dolphin Freedom Foundation, said.
It damaged, and even destroyed, the mind's activities.
They got into the drug culture, the alcohol culture and it destroyed their mind for the long term.
In the same interview, he claimed that disease was not only physically debilitating but psychologically degrading: "physical wretchedness has done its worse on the human sufferer, for it has destroyed his mind... [it] annihilates the mental faculties the faculties distinctive of the human being".
He spent the next two decades almost wholly unable to write, his thoughts swirling with mounting paranoia — an early symptom, probably, of the cerebral disease that would eventually destroy his mind.
As regular readers of this site will be aware, Moore's comic has become notorious for a storyline in which Batgirl, aka Barbara Gordon, is crippled and most likely raped by the Joker as part of his efforts to destroy the mind of her father, the regular Batman ally Commissioner James Gordon.
