Sable
Telvanni wizard.
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It requires a particular level of depravity for a person to find arousal in either another person's pain or the exposing of that person's viscera. Popular media likes to glorify killers who partake in necrophilia and sexual sadism as a compulsion. But the reality is that these sorts of people are disgusting creatures partaking in disgusting activities and the only attention that is entitled to them is that which is given during the process of their sentencing. I never understood the fascination with these sorts of types in the media until recently. I think that for the most part it isn't a fascination in the actions committed by these types themselves, but rather the esoteric or exclusive nature of such actions. People (in my experience) are generally drawn toward things that are mysterious or otherwise unfamiliar and unknown and often will romanticize such things. At face value, this is harmless. However, I feel that this romanticism can culminate in real-world action and perhaps even in a shift in the values of a demographic when extended to its extreme as people are desensitized over time and develop a desire to imitate.
It is something deeper than psychopathy and sociopathy. Psycho and sociopaths, while not necessarily feeling remorse for their actions will still experience emotions such as disgust or revolt. So, to be attracted to something as vile as the idea of taking apart another person requires another factor, a deeper factor. These sorts of people are not to be praised. They are to be scorned and are not deserving of a place within the community or within the media.
What I don't think people understand is the extra level of calculation and consciousness that is involved in such a process. A level beyond what is required to do a person harm. These people are genuinely without the responses which you, I and most other normal people share. They possess the same understandings but they are either too apathetic or villainous to adhere to them.
You will have to excuse my ramble. I know it is not like my usual short style of posting. But this is a topic I which I do feel emotional about and would like to explore.
What do you think causes such behaviors? Is it evil or something else?
It is something deeper than psychopathy and sociopathy. Psycho and sociopaths, while not necessarily feeling remorse for their actions will still experience emotions such as disgust or revolt. So, to be attracted to something as vile as the idea of taking apart another person requires another factor, a deeper factor. These sorts of people are not to be praised. They are to be scorned and are not deserving of a place within the community or within the media.
What I don't think people understand is the extra level of calculation and consciousness that is involved in such a process. A level beyond what is required to do a person harm. These people are genuinely without the responses which you, I and most other normal people share. They possess the same understandings but they are either too apathetic or villainous to adhere to them.
You will have to excuse my ramble. I know it is not like my usual short style of posting. But this is a topic I which I do feel emotional about and would like to explore.
What do you think causes such behaviors? Is it evil or something else?