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She was just a mass murderer. I don't see any indications of sociopathy. I bet most people could be turned to this life given her circumstances and environmen
by wavefunction 9y ago
She was just a mass murderer. I don't see any indications of sociopathy.
I bet most people could be turned to this life given her circumstances and environment.
- jacquesm 9y agoThe two biggest mistakes people tend to repeat are thinking that (1) it can't happen here and (2) if it does happen here I'll be different.
- thret 9y agoIt's our society that is better, not our people.
- cal5k 9y agoIt'll never go to zero, but in a well-off society you see mental health issues accounting for a lot of crime. In poor or chaotic societies, there is the added element of otherwise normal people forced by circumstance into doing terrible things.
- jacquesm 9y agoSocieties are not on some kind of monotonically increasing slope, they can regress and they can do so with astonishing speed.
- AlaskaBuilding 9y agoOurs feels like it is doing that right now. Even separate from the political issues, look at how many homeless people are walking my city who mumble, stare at the sky and are clearly suffering some kind of mental deficit, possibly on drugs too. There is no place for them to go for treatment.
- ShabbosGoy 9y agoSociety cannot erase the demons of our nature. At best you achieve a level of control that is fleeting.
- moron4hire 9y agoShe accepted payment from a friend to murder the friend's boyfriend's other girlfriend. Not only that, she decapitated and dismembered the body. Did we read the same article? Having a "just doing a job" attitude about killing other people is sociopathic.
- dp-tyvek 9y agoYou don't have to be a sociopath to do horrific things. A lot of people are capable of doing the same in the right (wrong) circumstances.
- greekyogurt21 9y agoA lot of people don't like to hear that. It's simmilar to when people call Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, etc. "monsters", they weren't monsters, they were human. Humans are capable of some pretty fucked up things
- learc83 9y agoIf what she said about killing the first person was correct, she felt remorse. She had a conscious, she just forced herself to ignore it until killing stopped bothering her. Historical genocides, and massacres show that either there are a lot more latent sociopaths out there than we ever dreamed of, or normal people can become desensitized to killing.