I believe thatr peopel who are interested in the subject from an academic standpoint are actually interested in these poeple the same way a car nut may have a fascination with Maseratis, they want to know what makes this particular make of human work. I knwo that is why i am interested in them. they are scary, and i like to learn as much as i can about things that scare me. It takes away the power.
the other thing is that they typically dont kill for attention. some do, but by and large, the media frenzy is not the goal, the kill and the weird shit they do with the body afterward is the goal. it invloves sexual gratification more than anything. glory is a partial goal for some killers, but most are more than happy to never ever have anythign they are doing discovered in any form. gacy, dahmer and Ridgeway didnt want their victims to be found, which is why they hid and/or disposed of them.
On the plus side, i think it is refreshing to see some one so repulsed by their actions that they have no interest in the subject at all. If there were more people wqith that attitude, urge, a lot less of these freaks would get the satisfaction of celebrity.
And natural born killers would have been a flop.
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Originally posted by urgeok
funny but i dont find it fascinating at all ..
unless you are a phsychologist or in law enforcement i cant understand the attraction to this kind of information.
i do understand being interested in things ..
some people like cars .. want to know how they work - keep stats ..
some people like aircraft - same thing.
I like movies and a ton of other stuff ...
these interests enrich peoples lives. I cant comprehend being fascinated with the minds and methods and motivations of the foulest scum on the planet.
to me i draw a comparrison with being fascinated with shit.
there is shit in the world .. we shit every day.
i'm really not interested in shit .. whats in it .. why i's brown.
how big some peoples shit is, how many times they shit.
i just wipe it off and flush it away.
i suppose that if there was a reason for me to need to know about shit (i was a Dr.) then it would be interesting to me but i'm not.
the information does nothing to enrich my life or stimulate my mind because i find shit unpleasant.
i guess i'm speaking soley for myself here but i have no interest or find no fascination with human pieces of shit. talking about them outside the police station gives most of them exactly what they wanted when they set out to destroy lives in the 1st place .. attention.
i like horror films for the goofy escapism and the attempt at thrills ..i have always preferred the supernatural films because they arent real.
i guess i've always been uncomfortable when the lines of entertainment get blurred with unpleasant reality - as exploitation films often do.
this whole serial killer thing plays into that very closely.
am i saying everyone should think like me? - nope
i'm just saying that because the thinking is so foreign to me - i i do really wonder - and question the thought process of people who are fascinated with shit.
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