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I have to agree with Melusine on this one, mostly I was wanting to hear mostly about what you guys think makes a killer like this guy, not really what we should do with him. I guess I made the mistake of starting my opening paragraph with "what should we do with this guy" LOL, but I meant more along the lines of "can he be helped, turned around from evil."
But I mean yall can discuss death penalty or no all you want, I'll just skip those posts [img]smile.gif[/img]
B-part - I did mention at the bottom of my post that this particular guy was just one example, and that I realize there are many other people who are much worse than this guy. I used this guy in my link purely as an example, that's it, to begin the discussion, because I just happened upon the article and it made me think.
Melusine - I agree there has to be some type of mental disorder going on in many cases, perhaps a lack of chemicals or too many, in the brain, who knows? Something that makes a person unable to control themselves. I mean, let's face it, we have all had hateful thoughts or feelings for someone at least one time in our life, but we do not act out on them. Oh our feelings can be quite strong and powerful, but we do not throw away all logic and rationality and just act out our primitive emotions physically.
The one thing though that still makes me wonder though, is the childhood aspect. Yes, lots of killers have been brought up with loving families (or so we hear, but we weren't there either), but there are quite a LOT of criminals who had abusive childhoods. I mean when you are a child you are learning, and you learn by example from your parents and other adults in your life. So it kind of seems logical that if you were brought up around a bunch of uncaring violent thugs, your mind may mold and grow with similar mentalities. I mean, are we all born with love for other human beings?
Bah, again to me it is still a very big mystery. I truly wish there was a simple way to find out, and fix it, so we didn't have people like serial killers on this planet anymore. But something tells me it just isn't that simple. [img]graemlins/awcrap.gif[/img]
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