- It’s disgusting, loathsome and most vile
- It depends on the killer
- Serial killers are your parents
- Anything that keeps people talking is a good thing
- He’d have to be a perfect gentleman
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Well, it’s definitely classified as a morbid curiosity.
I’m fascinated with Henry Lee Lucas for some odd reason. I think it’s because he had a somewhat low IQ but he evaded law enforcement for nearly a couple decades, I think.
Plus the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is super messed up!
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I remember feeling very disturbed by that movie.
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Anyone who faps is committing haplocide. So like half a genocidalist.
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Absolutely! I ran out of the room during the home invasion scene when I first saw it.
The DVD special edition has some great commentary by the filmmakers though, and why they approached the subject in the manner they did.
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I think I’ll leave genocide proper for another thread.
some vigilantes would be considered serial killers
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I just watched The Confession Killer miniseries about Henry Lee Lucas a few days ago. It was really interesting and not at all what I was expecting. I’d recommend it if you ever get a chance to see it.
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I have some favourite fictional ones. I think that’s tolerable.
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Oh! I want to see that really bad. Unfortunately my library doesn’t carry it on DVD yet.
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I don’t think I have a favorite serial killer per se but then again I don’t have many favorite celebrities either.
I’ve watched movies about John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dhamer, Summer of Sam, Albert Fish, The Green River killer, Ed Gein, Jack the Ripper, and so on.
Meh! They’re okay.
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I researched serial killers on a regular basis. It’s my jam. Currently reading about some of hitlers elite forces who ran the concentration camps and killed millions for no reason other than race, religion and sexual orientation and disabilities. Those psychopaths are interesting to research from a psychology perspective.
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I think having a favorite killer to research is alright. I mean, from the human perspective there’s a lot to learn. However, I think its messed up to have a favorite as in “they did the best job,” or “I’d buy them a cup of coffee.”
Some serial killers are very interesting to research, and from the perspective of science and gaining knowledge there’s a lot to learn. Being an edge lord and looking up to them is pretty lame and somewhat concerning.
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OK, I’ll come clean about my preferences: Ed Gein. He didn’t kill that many people - this is probably to his credit - but his pathology was complex and an understanble obsession for horror writers. Here psychiatrist turned YouTuber Todd Grande makes some interesting points.
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Stalin was a murderer
but i love him.
I can’t explain it
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You’re definitely a romantic. But I’m saving mass murderers for another thread. Mind you, Young Stalin also robbed banks. That I find more endearing.
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Does working in the aboittar count. Or being a soldier. Killing is always inmoral.
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@Dunno3x I don’t think I could answer that without getting into politics. Chaplin makes good points about that very question in his wonderful film Mr Verdoux.
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I don’t think it hurts anything to discuss serial killers in the abstract. The more knowledge we share and the more we know about them the more it will help us protect ourselves against them. I think most serial killers deserve the death penalty, but I think the way we should dish out the death penalty should be very frugal. We should only kill them if their crimes were especially cruel and heinous. We don’t want to execute innocent people. John Grisham wrote a true story about a man who was wrongfully given the death penalty. He came within five days of being executed. We definitely need to guard against things like that.
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Well there’s a sinister aesthetic to evil, something that is easily and dangerously ignored when reducing it to information or information processing deficits
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