There are too many cases like this! But even more alarming are those who grow up in "normal" households and turn out like this. It's just the wiring of their brains. Did you ever see the film (the Dutch version) "The Vanishing"? The end scene where he is eating cheerfully on the grass that now covers the graves of two people. He was a brilliant individual who just wondered what it would be like to kill someone -- much the way children pull the wings off of moths or the legs off grasshoppers. They are merely very curious and do not understand that it is wrong.
Now of course killers who delight in their deeds are quite different -- especially since they work so hard not to be caught by the authorities. Clearly they understand that their deeds are wrong, anti-social. My question is -- how do we work with that type of mindset? How do we train it to think along social lines?
Alas we live in a world that is just starting to come to terms with the idea that people can be helped. When I was a technical writer, I worked for researchers in the College of Pharmacy who were studying alzheimer's (which is when I got interested in psychiatry). From their work, I realized how much we still have to learn about the human brain.
I guess these are people either missing something naturally, or having missed one of those windows of opportunity during a child's development, when people learn empathy.
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Now of course killers who delight in their deeds are quite different -- especially since they work so hard not to be caught by the authorities. Clearly they understand that their deeds are wrong, anti-social. My question is -- how do we work with that type of mindset? How do we train it to think along social lines?
Alas we live in a world that is just starting to come to terms with the idea that people can be helped. When I was a technical writer, I worked for researchers in the College of Pharmacy who were studying alzheimer's (which is when I got interested in psychiatry). From their work, I realized how much we still have to learn about the human brain.
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