If neither innate benevolence nor malevolence led to his behavior, it has to be something else.
That’s a strong hypothesis. There have been cases of individuals who seemed nice and friendly, progressive, honest family men, and then turned out to have unspeakable darkness and monstrous deeds to their name that happened as soon as the doors were closed and the targets were “permissible”.
It’s entirely possible that Leopold II of Belgium was simply an evil serial killer, and his home reign is simply explained like all the neighbours who say “but he was such a nice guy!” of the dude who was just found with a fridge full of chopped up children.
That’s a strong hypothesis. There have been cases of individuals who seemed nice and friendly, progressive, honest family men, and then turned out to have unspeakable darkness and monstrous deeds to their name that happened as soon as the doors were closed and the targets were “permissible”.
It’s entirely possible that Leopold II of Belgium was simply an evil serial killer, and his home reign is simply explained like all the neighbours who say “but he was such a nice guy!” of the dude who was just found with a fridge full of chopped up children.