Demon wrote:
I am fully aware of what a psychopath is (also known as sociopath). This of course does not mean that it is not humanly possible for one to change, with some form of cognitive therapy or to change due to outside influences such as meeting someone in whom the killer has developed a relationship with. You cannot place the human mind in a jar and label it unchangeable. It cannot be done.
The human mind is one that is continually shaped and moulded by a combination of environmental factors and personal experiences. To presume that a killer cannot change is to presume that he was indeed born to kill and I refuse to believe that.
While watching my mother get beat up almost everyday I became a sadist at the age of 6 (tried to burn my little brother on a hot iron) but did not become a potential killer till the age of 16. That's when the murder fantasies began. So, what is the difference between myself and a serial killer who probably didn't start killing till he or she was that age also or older? Are you trying to tell me that there is no hope for me either to ever stop wanting to kill? Or maybe like the serial killer, you would also deem me a psychopathic monster based on the fact that I too get pleasure from these homocidal desires? After all, I have traits from several different personality disorders... Antisocial, Schizotypal and Schizoid being the main three. And yes, I have been diagnosed by a professional.
I have come close to killing people and when I say close, I mean very close to the point where I have actually strangled someone. But unlike the serial killer, I have much restraint and did not kill him. I have held a gun in my hand loaded with a bullet that I had written the victims name on with intent to kill, but did not pull the trigger. It was not guilt that stopped me. It was fear of capture. That is the only thing that stopped me. I knew I could come close and it gave me a thrill to do so, but the possibility of spending life in prison was and is not appealing by any means.
So tell me, if fear of losing my freedom is the only thing stopping me, then am I much different from a Serial Killer? Yet I can feel love towards my child and care towards the rest of my family... brother, sister, mother but no love or thought at all towards my victim other treating him/her as mere cattle. I believe it is those emotions of love and caring towards family that actually make me human. So, then does the love that a killer may feel towards his own family. How then can that make him a monster?
Evil is in fact a human concept derived by a society that has placed boundaries on what is deemed acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. Who has the true right to judge anothers behaviour? Who has the right to call another evil when they are not without sin themselves? Answer: No-one!
~ Demon Disciple ~
P.S... I have noticed that a couple of my other replies have not shown up in the group yet. Are they being reviewed by the moderator or have you chosen to delete them for some unknown reason?