Are Any Of Your Interested/fascinated By Sociopaths?

I'm talking people like Jeffery Dahmer, BTK.. people like them. I find it pretty interesting how their brains are so different then others. I in no way am glorifying the sick fucking things they did, but just find it interesting why they do these things.

 

I've had my moments of fascination. Adolf Hitler fascinates me with his obsession that he had for the occult.

 

yes, I have always been pretty fascinated by serial killers..and extremely scared of them as a result of too many late nights reading true crime.

 

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Hi, Rollin.....

I am interested for a purely sociological reason and what makes some people killers and others not....as i think when science figures out what about the brain causes lack of empathy and a propensity for violence, perhaps it can be treated.......
I wonder.....I think I have heard that they are doing neurological studies already, and one part of the brain is smaller than in the average person, making the person more violent, so i think there can be a genetic predisposition for it. I also think some people come from very abusive homes and roots, and know nothing else, so it is learned.
I would like to tell parents everywhere to know their children. How are they with kittens and puppies....? Are they loving? Are they bullies in school?.....etc.... Please know your child....many of the serial killers started their awful killing spree torturing small animals, when they were small children......I heard one serial killer threw cats off of roofs to their deaths as a child.......This is surely a warning sign for things to come.....also.....I am so heart broken for these animals, as well.......and this all must be stopped.

KNOW THE HEART AND SOUL OF YOUR CHILDREN!!!!!!

 

I've always been interested in serial killers. Dahmer is one of my favs. Him and I seem to have a few things in common when I remember doing all the case studies about him. But I found it sad. He was basically a comfort killer, is how I see him. Killing for comfort. Rejected by a society that didn't want him and that the only decent companionship he could find was with corpses. =[

 

i'm more interested in people who are a-cultural, WITHOUT being harmful/destructive.

i'm, if anything, really kind of bummed out by the prejudice/stereotype mundania has about being a-cultural.

the vast and overwhelming majority of a-cultural/a-social people, are just the exact opposite.

the best, most positive, constructive, imaginative, creative and inventive people it is possible to be.

in short, what nature and whatever gods there might be, intended us to be.

 

Most significantly abberant mental conditions I find interesting, which I am sure you are aware of if you have talked to me. I found serial killers fascinating when I did reports on them in school, and if I ever catch a documentary on Charles Manson, I'll usually watch it.

I recently read a chapter on Mao ZeDong in a philosophy book, the leader of Communist China during the mid-20th century, who I think fits the description of sociopath.

It was not a detailed description of his tenure more like a brief chapter outlining his philosophy and policies. What's fascinating to me is that he had such a jumbled approach of good and evil.

He essentially wanted China to catch up with the West in terms of economic prosperity, technology and ideas but went about it by mass bloodshed, he temporarily promoted a hands off government approach briefly allowing for states to delve into anarchy, only to jump in with military force to allow for further suppression of various groups. Education, literacy and employment for women grew exponentially under his regime and he was one of the few leaders sympathetic to movements of counter-culture, yet at the expense of aboloshing much tradition.

It's fascinating how someone like that seems all that disparate thinking is appropriate.

 

i am fascinated in a negative way, by fanatics, ideological and religious both, which i consider to be a form of sociopathy, if there ever was one.

 

I used to be when I was still twentysomething. Now I think it is sad and pathetic that serial killers are glorified, while their victims remain mostly anonymous. I mean, it must be really tough for the surviving family members of the victims? Why are their stories so rarely told?

Also, there are so many sociopaths in politics right now, who needs Dahmer or Bundy? They seem more like a footnote to me

 

I don't see what's fascinating about it. Their reasons for doing what they do are 100% stupid. Just bumfuck stupid. I might as well have a fascination with hillbillies in the backwoods of Tennessee. Poor Jeffrey felt left out, so the stupid idiot thought he could turn people into zombies who would love him. I think the fascination people have is how can people THAT stupid exist.

 

yes i am somewhat fascinated by it. its more of a fscination with human psychology, and the quirky manifestations that sometimes occur. our brains are machines, much like electronic computing machines they operate according to certain rules. an intel pentium II will execute any code it encounters AS IF IT WAS x86 machine code (or attempt it as if it was) ... but it will always be a pentium II. you can program it however you like but it will always behave like a pentium II does.

 

For a period of time I was fascinated by the Nazi Doctors and read every book on the subject from “Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide” to “Doctors from Hell”.

It became quickly became apparent they weren't sociopaths. Many of them turned to alcohol or would search aimlessly to justify their actions.


Hotwater

 

I find Manson Fascinating ! not just the guy but the whole story


Did he really Kill the 60s ?

 

Hey Irm !!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Killing-For-Company-Dennis-Nilsen/dp/0099552612

 

One of the most interesting stories to me is the BTK killer. He seemed like such a normal guy, and the stuff he did went on for almost 20 years. One of my friends actually moved t othe area he lived in a little while before he was caught .

 

Perhaps it's something to do with the taboo nature of some of their behavior and the ability to trvialize life, which most of us might consider the most important value in our existence.

I'm not suggesting it's a good thing, I just find it interesting from a distanced perspective. I mean when I was researching Ed Gein it's not like I read stories about him using human skulls and bones as furniture as was like "This guy has his pulse on what life is all about" but the taboo quality of it all is fascinating to me.

In regards to the latter argument regarding trivializing life, perhaps the ritualistic and pecuilar manner in which individual serial killers often do it is interestning. I can't really think of another justification because technically I guess we could argue that even the military trivializes life, but people somehow are more accepting of their form(s) of violence, eventhough it's towards far more people.

 

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Cheers Glen.

 

The Manson Murders and the stabbing at the Altamont concert are the two events that are usually implicated as the death of the original incarnation of the hippie movement.

 

Yeah, I was wondering when someone might bring that up. Certainly a far cry from Woodstock