Do You Think That Serial Killers Are Insane?

[LoneKiller]

Sounds like a dumb question, doesn't it?
I just get sick and tired of the terms crazy and insane being applied to serial killers. In my opinion, I don't think that they are insane at all. All the great ones functioned well in society. Their actions required much thought and planning. also, many were wicked intelligent to boot. That doesn't sound like a crazy person to me.

For those who agree with me.(Probably won't be many.)How do you believe a person becomes one? Do you think that maybe they're born that way? Perhaps childhood trauma is to blame?

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on the subject.


God Bless.
LK

 

[Phaedron]

Nah, just lonekillers... haha jk

 

[LoneKiller]

LOL!! Well played.

 

[Among the Sleep]

I'm not exactly an expert, but there's probably a lot of different reasons, I imagine every case is a little different. The thing is, there's really no clinical definition of what "crazy" or "insane" even means. "Insanity" isn't a mental disorder, but there are mental disorders that can cause you to do crazy things. People use the word crazy to describe people whose behavior they don't understand...whether it's Ted Bundy, or some kid you thought was weird in high school or something. I think some of these people are just sociopaths, where their brains aren't wired to process much emotion and they do it basically for fun, to fill the emptiness I guess. I know that Ted Bundy said in an interview the day before he died that he was heavily influenced by violent pornography that he stumbled upon when he was very young. Sexual imprinting takes place in adolescence, so I think some people, for whatever reason, are just SUPER sensitive to that kind of thing and it ***** their brain up from a very young age. I don't think all the reasons for serial killers have really been discovered yet.

I'm talking out of my ass, though.

 

[LoneKiller]

I'm not exactly an expert, but there's probably a lot of different reasons, I imagine every case is a little different. The thing is, there's really no clinical definition of what "crazy" or "insane" even means. "Insanity" isn't a mental disorder, but there are mental disorders that can cause you to do crazy things. People use the word crazy to describe people whose behavior they don't understand...whether it's Ted Bundy, or some kid you thought was weird in high school or something. I think some of these people are just sociopaths, where their brains aren't wired to process much emotion and they do it basically for fun, to fill the emptiness I guess. I know that Ted Bundy said in an interview the day before he died that he was heavily influenced by violent pornography that he stumbled upon when he was very young. Sexual imprinting takes place in adolescence, so I think some people, for whatever reason, are just SUPER sensitive to that kind of thing and it ***** their brain up from a very young age. I don't think all the reasons for serial killers have really been discovered yet.

I'm talking out of my ass, though.

You're not talking out of your ass at all. You bring up some good points.

 

[Parabolani]

Social isolation when they are children would play a role I think.

 

[Walley]

insanity dosent define intelligence. brilliant people can be crazy too. (sometimes closer to crazy than the rest of us)

 

[SophiaGrace]

We went over what defines a mental disorder in my abnormal psych class. I think there were criterion. I can only remember 2. Serial killers would fall under number 2, being functionally impaired while interacting with the world.

 

[Okiedokes]

I uh, actually watched some documentaries recently on a couple serial killers and just studied/tried to understand them and the one was more specific in his answers. He said that other than his family, he views people and animals as objects and that he just doesn't have it in him to feel any feeling associated with killing others. But he seems to be.. real.. protective of his family including the one he made (a kid). He also said things like, people who cross his path at the wrong time "deserve" to die because they pretty much walked into it and he's a no nonsense kinda guy.

I think that environmental issues has to do with it. Some kind of trauma...yes. Or maybe just born that way, a sociopath perhaps. If I had to choose which has more impact...I'd say environmental and whatever happened in their family.

 

[Gutted]

I don't think so. We all overuse words I think. Some people just lack the vocabulary to properly call someone something. So they use other words x]

 

[IgnoredOne]

Sociopathy is a kind of technical insanity that does not usually impede functionality in the world.

 

[SophiaGrace]

Sociopathy is a kind of technical insanity that does not usually impede functionality in the world.

I disagree. I think it can impede.

 

[SirLancelot]

just last week I was talking with a colleague about how soldiers are trained serial killers. How some of them find it difficult to get back into a civilian life style after murdering or seeing murder.

I don't believe all serial killers are insane. They're just less huggy than most of us.

 

[Mans]

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They are not insane totally but the most of them have been influenced by a dangerous demon or Satan himself.
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[TropicalStarfish]

In my opinion, people underestimate what they are capable of. If you apply the right kind of pressure in the right areas, to anyone, at the right time, well, you will get results.

I think most of us choose to turn a blind eye to the fact that the majority of most populations perceive death a fitting punishment to certain crimes. Taking a life, viewed from a perspective indifferent of morality, is just that, taking a life. Then when you add into that equation that morality is relative to whom is perceiving it, all you are really left with is a majority wins judgement.

If there are 10 people in a room where whatever is said and done in that rooms stays in that room, and 9 people decide 1 of the 10 deserves to die... Then when 9 people walk out of that room, it's not murder. If 1 of those 10 people decided to kill another 1 of those 10 people, but the other 8 didn't think it was, right, to kill that person, then 8 people will walk out of that room, innocent of the crime of murder.


When some one is executed this year will you feel anything? can you feel anything for the taking of an innocent life you are ignorant about? We are not omnipresent beings. We are separated by the limitations of our ability to perceive. Expand your perception. The farther in you go the more you can see out and vice versa.

Man, I'm tired of what this forum is turning into... This used to be a nice place. Doesn't anyone care to just socialize any more instead of stir controversy endlessly?

 

[Bones]

Yes.

Do You Think That Serial Killers Are Insane?

 

[SophiaGrace]

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They are not insane totally but the most of them have been influenced by a dangerous demon or Satan himself.
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I like your posts.

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In my opinion, people underestimate what they are capable of. If you apply the right kind of pressure in the right areas, to anyone, at the right time, well, you will get results.

I disagree. Not everyone. There are factors such as temperment involved, but yes, given the milgram and stanford experiment, people can be swayed.

 

[LoneKiller]

In my opinion, people underestimate what they are capable of. If you apply the right kind of pressure in the right areas, to anyone, at the right time, well, you will get results.

I think most of us choose to turn a blind eye to the fact that the majority of most populations perceive death a fitting punishment to certain crimes. Taking a life, viewed from a perspective indifferent of morality, is just that, taking a life. Then when you add into that equation that morality is relative to whom is perceiving it, all you are really left with is a majority wins judgement.

If there are 10 people in a room where whatever is said and done in that rooms stays in that room, and 9 people decide 1 of the 10 deserves to die... Then when 9 people walk out of that room, it's not murder. If 1 of those 10 people decided to kill another 1 of those 10 people, but the other 8 didn't think it was, right, to kill that person, then 8 people will walk out of that room, innocent of the crime of murder.


When some one is executed this year will you feel anything? can you feel anything for the taking of an innocent life you are ignorant about? We are not omnipresent beings. We are separated by the limitations of our ability to perceive. Expand your perception. The farther in you go the more you can see out and vice versa.

Man, I'm tired of what this forum is turning into... This used to be a nice place. Doesn't anyone care to just socialize any more instead of stir controversy endlessly?

Nobody is forcing you to post in these threads sweet cheeks.

 

[Among the Sleep]

No controversy has been stirred either. Lol.

 

[SophiaGrace]

Let him have his opinion like the rest of us.