Homicide. Assassination. Serial Killer. Murderer. These words captivate american audiences generation after generation. The picture painted in our heads upon hearing these words may be those of Ted Bundy, Jack the Ripper, or H. H. Holmes, the notorious serial killers of the last two-hundred years. These people are seen as the fore front of killers and murderers, but in David M. Buss’s book, “The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill”, he illustrates his new theory on how everyone, including you and I, are naturally hardwired to kill. This book, being one of 7 books published, represents his conclusions after what he claims was “the largest scientific study ever carried out on people’s homicidal fantasies”, going through 375 murders
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This theory of murder by Buss brings to the surface the complexity of the human mind, and explains this through the medium of murder, making the book a great piece of literature to help discover more about the human mind and its development over time. Throughout the book, Buss describes how anyone, our neighbors, our friends and the ones we know could be that murderer, and all that separates us from a murderer, is the fact we choose to act differently upon those natural killing instincts. But are those instincts actually controllable? What if these evolutionary instincts, supposedly thought as controllable, are just a ticking time bomb and will eventually explode when the situation arises? These questions are yet to be answered even after extensive research and multiple purposed theories. The book “The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill” explains how your “neighbor”, the ones close to you, could be the murderer you see on Tv’s late at night, but what if the murderer wasn’t just next door, but really laid deep inside you, clawing to get
This theory of murder by Buss brings to the surface the complexity of the human mind, and explains this through the medium of murder, making the book a great piece of literature to help discover more about the human mind and its development over time. Throughout the book, Buss describes how anyone, our neighbors, our friends and the ones we know could be that murderer, and all that separates us from a murderer, is the fact we choose to act differently upon those natural killing instincts. But are those instincts actually controllable? What if these evolutionary instincts, supposedly thought as controllable, are just a ticking time bomb and will eventually explode when the situation arises? These questions are yet to be answered even after extensive research and multiple purposed theories. The book “The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill” explains how your “neighbor”, the ones close to you, could be the murderer you see on Tv’s late at night, but what if the murderer wasn’t just next door, but really laid deep inside you, clawing to get