• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I am fascinated by what causes a person to become that way. But I agree, I once read up on Manson cause you hear so much about him. Manson was a moron and a jackass, just a complete waste of a person, an utter loser, yet people talk about him like he’s a genius. He’s honestly so ordinary and unimpressive.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah that’s what I mean, whenever I get to know the personality of a serial killer they are not that different than all the narcissists I met throughout my life. Socially aloof, spiteful, childishly manipulative, ill tempered, and emotionally stunted. The only difference is that serial killers kill people, which to me all that indicates is that the person is missing some sort of social intelligence. So when I say they are not that special I’m saying that they are just your run of the mill narcissist who are extra stunted. All the same flavor of shitty human.

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        8 months ago

        Killing people as an indicator of missing social intelligence might be my favorite understatement

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          Lol you’re welcome. I say that because most of the time these people think they are more intelligent because they are not bound by social norms and so they see themselves as superior predators to exploit the fools who follow the system. But in reality they are just incapable of forming connections with human beings and don’t understand the social landscape that well, or dont understand why social structures exist in the first place even if some norms are silly. Most humans are capable of murder, we just aren’t dumb.

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      8 months ago

      What causes a person to become a serial killer is brain damage, nothing more complicated than that.

      It can be an issue during embryological development, the result of physical injury, or the result of extreme psychological distress. But at the end of the day, it’s just brain damage.