Sick And Evil People

[Bartmanhomer]

Why are some people sick and evil? I just don't understand these type of people.

[Juniper]

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Just be glad you don't. If you understood them, I'd feel sorry for you.

[B. de Corbin]

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Because humans have a very, very wide range of possible personality characteristics. Some will fall at one end of the spectrum, some will fall at the other end, most will fall somewhere in between.

Where a person falls is related to genetics, environment, and personal history, modified by inidivual choice.

[Munin-Hugin]

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I suppose you could look at it in a very movie-esque or comic book way. The funny thing is, when you go and analyze those sources, there is quite a bit of psychology behind why they write things the way they do. There is also the old axiom of "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely". Taking into your hands the power over life and death, of being the one able to bring about destruction, mayhem, and chaos can be an overwhelming rush, and can become a sort of addiction. As with many addictions, the more you do it, the more you have to do to feel the same sort of rush. That's why they say that serial killers tend to start with small animals, their prey getting larger and larger until they turn to humans.

The thing is, destruction and chaos are just parts of the natural world already. Some folks just get carried away with it.

[habbalah]

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Because people are inherently self-focused creatures, and we do things that benefit ourselves that might harm others. Sometimes thoughtlessly, but sometimes it's deliberate, because you put your needs and desires above others. Also, if you're really curious, there's a course you can buy about evil and why it exists.

[nbdy]

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The title of this thread intrigued me because of a question I put to my husband this weekend after brooding about Paris some more, which inevitably had me evaluating society in whole and in parts. I asked him whether people were too broken to be fixed. He considered briefly and replied only that there certainly seemed to be a lot of broken people in the world. This is how conversations don't happen -- when the questions get too big.

[Prickly Pear]

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I think that some people are too broken to be fixed. They tend to spend a great deal of time trying to break others. Most people are fixable. They just need time, opportunity and the energy to get to their best selves. We just spend most of our time and energy reacting to the brokenness. Also, of course, we may have different ideas of what healed is.

[THANK...]

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Violence, manipulation, and others forms of harm are normal human characteristics due to survival instincts yet to some it is all they know so they exemplify such traits. Gang members, serial killers, 'black' psychologists, for instance, are people most likely brought up in environments where negative traits were common and have a hard time understanding that kindness and honesty are actually practical ways of living and attaining survival needs and desires.

Ancestral conditioning and abuse can cause somebody to become 'evil' and 'sick'. In rare cases, some are just born that way.

[thalassa]

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I think everyone should watch this:

[anunitu]

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I have read that some people are Literally broken,as in parts of their brain do not function. It is not their upbringing,or their siblings,or bad environment. Certain parts of the brain are responsible for our emotions and empathy and some people have damaged parts that govern those things.

[B. de Corbin]

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I have read that some people are Literally broken,as in parts of their brain do not function. It is not their upbringing,or their siblings,or bad environment. Certain parts of the brain are responsible for our emotions and empathy and some people have damaged parts that govern those things.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Coke babies, various environments effects, genetics (sociopath/psychopath, for example, but there are others), extreme impulsiveness and/or risk taking, physical damage to the temporal lobe... and those are only the ones I know off.

They can be modified, especially if caught young enough, but they can't be cured.