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Fugging sociopaths
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Skittles
(152,965 posts)when they were in the crowd - trying to get a feel for who was the leader - but there's zero emotion in either face - no anxiety or apprehension - I'm leaning towards two nutcases
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)We are talking of two young men in the deep throes of social alienation, and radicalization.
But people still want an outside force.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)But the Cheney humpers are skeptical.
malaise
(267,823 posts)CK_John
(10,005 posts)malaise
(267,823 posts)new level. How so you turn on people in your own community in such a cruel way is beyond my imagination.
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uppityperson
(115,674 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)in a twisted mind. Gives them a purpose for their madness.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)Sociopaths looking for a framework for their acts of carnage.
Harris & Klebold:
"The killers, in fact, laughed at petty school shooters. They bragged about dwarfing the carnage of the Oklahoma City bombing and originally scheduled their bloody performance for its anniversary. Klebold boasted on video about inflicting "the most deaths in U.S. history." Columbine was intended not primarily as a shooting at all, but as a bombing on a massive scale. If they hadn't been so bad at wiring the timers, the propane bombs they set in the cafeteria would have wiped out 600 people. After those bombs went off, they planned to gun down fleeing survivors. An explosive third act would follow, when their cars, packed with still more bombs, would rip through still more crowds, presumably of survivors, rescue workers, and reporters. The climax would be captured on live television. It wasn't just "fame" they were afterAgent Fuselier bristles at that trivializing termthey were gunning for devastating infamy on the historical scale of an Attila the Hun. Their vision was to create a nightmare so devastating and apocalyptic that the entire world would shudder at their power."
This really excellent article about the psychology & motives of Harris and Kelbold is at:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/2004/04/the_depressive_and_the_psychopath.html
malaise
(267,823 posts)Freaking wow!
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)--considering the grandiose plans of Harris and Klebold and the Tsarnaevs, I guess we have to be glad they didn't complete the whole mission in their own eyes. Small comfort.
Outside extremist views just fanned the flames of psychopathy in these guys.
from the article:
"Unlike psychotic individuals, psychopaths are rational and aware of what they are doing and why. Their behavior is the result of choice, freely exercised." Diagnosing Harris as a psychopath represents neither a legal defense, nor a moral excuse. But it illuminates a great deal about the thought process that drove him to mass murder.
Cha
(295,926 posts)know.
thanks for the tv report, malaise