The thought of people with personality disorders of this sort always being around, however, is pretty fascinating. Is this an aberration, a sort of behavioral cancer, or is this somehow an adaptation that once provided a valid evolutionary strategy in humans but which has since become a negative trait?
I know there are no answers, but it still fascinates me in a sick sort of way.
I know there are no answers, but it still fascinates me in a sick sort of way.
It is interesting. Personality disorders make me wonder about a lot of different things--how it may be a survival mechanism that goes haywire, that it may be how humans were to begin with, that maybe if some soiopaths were treated with some drugs they could learn to feel....
I used to be really fascinated with serial killers. Read a lot of books about them. I was curious about what went wrong that made them so insane.
Then I started working with sex offendors and vicitms of abuse, and couldn't stand reading about serial killers anymore. Made me too angry.
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Date: 2004-04-22 12:58 pm (UTC)He was a fucking maniac.
I think people like him have existed for a long time and I don't think it's just part of modern society.
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Date: 2004-04-22 01:36 pm (UTC)The thought of people with personality disorders of this sort always being around, however, is pretty fascinating. Is this an aberration, a sort of behavioral cancer, or is this somehow an adaptation that once provided a valid evolutionary strategy in humans but which has since become a negative trait?
I know there are no answers, but it still fascinates me in a sick sort of way.
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Date: 2004-04-22 02:17 pm (UTC)It is interesting. Personality disorders make me wonder about a lot of different things--how it may be a survival mechanism that goes haywire, that it may be how humans were to begin with, that maybe if some soiopaths were treated with some drugs they could learn to feel....
I used to be really fascinated with serial killers. Read a lot of books about them. I was curious about what went wrong that made them so insane.
Then I started working with sex offendors and vicitms of abuse, and couldn't stand reading about serial killers anymore. Made me too angry.