“Yes, I do have remorse, but I 'm not even sure myself whether it is as profound as it should be. I 've always wondered myself why I don 't feel remorse,” said Jeffrey Dahmer, the Milwaukee Cannibal. In the US there are around 16,238 murders per year, averaging to about 44 murders per day. How is it in a society that knows it is morally wrong to kill a person that it still continues? I 've always wondered why this trend is ongoing and believe there is more to uncover about why the murderers commit these crimes. The question of why people become murderers is an important one when it comes to understanding possibly preventing future killings; several motives and reasons are revealed when looking at the cases of Elliot Rodger, Amarjeet Sada.
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As an eight year old he was seen by several psychiatrists for being antisocial but was never formally diagnosed with a mental illness. He was given antipsychotic medication that was normally used to treat people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but refused to take it. There are theories that Rodger possibly had aspergers, or sociopathy which are common in serial killers today. In his autobiographical manifesto, My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger, that he wrote before his death he explains his life in much detail. He suffered a childhood of being antisocial and bullied for being “nerdy,” disliked, and unpopular. School life he described as feeling, “small, weak, and above all, worthless. I cried by myself at school every day” (Rodger …show more content…
Dahmer committed rape, murder, and dismemberment of seventeen men and boys. Why did he specifically choose boys? Dahmer learned he was homosexual during his early high school years. He fantasized the idea of their dead corpse and them being unconscious. Mental health professionals, George Palermo and clinical psychologist Samuel Friedman found that, “he killed those men because he wanted to kill the source of his homosexual attraction to them. In killing them, he killed what he hated in himself.” He was also diagnosed by his psychologists to having antisocial personality disorder and sadistic traits. Dahmer also described his killings stating, “I was not into torture. This was not a hate thing. This thing had no racism. This was not a homosexual
As an eight year old he was seen by several psychiatrists for being antisocial but was never formally diagnosed with a mental illness. He was given antipsychotic medication that was normally used to treat people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but refused to take it. There are theories that Rodger possibly had aspergers, or sociopathy which are common in serial killers today. In his autobiographical manifesto, My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger, that he wrote before his death he explains his life in much detail. He suffered a childhood of being antisocial and bullied for being “nerdy,” disliked, and unpopular. School life he described as feeling, “small, weak, and above all, worthless. I cried by myself at school every day” (Rodger …show more content…
Dahmer committed rape, murder, and dismemberment of seventeen men and boys. Why did he specifically choose boys? Dahmer learned he was homosexual during his early high school years. He fantasized the idea of their dead corpse and them being unconscious. Mental health professionals, George Palermo and clinical psychologist Samuel Friedman found that, “he killed those men because he wanted to kill the source of his homosexual attraction to them. In killing them, he killed what he hated in himself.” He was also diagnosed by his psychologists to having antisocial personality disorder and sadistic traits. Dahmer also described his killings stating, “I was not into torture. This was not a hate thing. This thing had no racism. This was not a homosexual