This is typical when you let yourself be blinded by the mechanism:
The mother of a South Carolina man suspected of killing seven people says her son is “very misunderstood” but not a monster.
Regina Tague told CBS for a “48 Hours” special airing Saturday she hates that her son, Todd Kohlhepp, is called a serial killer.
“I know that’s what they say. He was very misunderstood,” she told CBS late Thursday. “Todd is not a monster. He’s not even close to it. He wasn’t doing it for enjoyment. He was doing it because he was mad and he was hurt.”
Serial killers are not superhuman geniuses. They are not happy charismatics who just happen to enjoy courageously hunting humans for sport.
They are miserable people, and wracked with amygdala. They are easily triggered, to a degree they periodically have to kill someone, even if it will destroy their lives, because the alternative would be unbearable. They are usually even insecure about their intellects because they know they are defective, to the point they derive indescribable relief when detectives cannot catch them initially. They suddenly feel as if they may actually not be the idiot, and that is blissful. They then overplay their hand due to stupidity and end up in jail or dead.
This dumbass was just another one of these angsty little losers who should have had his ticket punched years back. In a state of nature, that is exactly what would have happened years ago, perhaps to a cantankerous ancestor of his before he was even born. Then innocent people wouldn’t have had to endure the misery produced by a world that shows “compassion” to defectives who are in actuality, evil incarnate.
Yes, it was because of his amygdala. But that doesn’t mean he wasn’t a monster, or that he shouldn’t have been killed. In fact, it specifically meant that he was a monster, and he needed to be killed.
This is why I will welcome the return of Darwinian selection when the Apocalypse comes. All of the good today was because of the Darwinian selection produced by good men dealing out justice unimpeded by the r-strategists in the world.
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Milady and I were watching the 48 Hours interview of Regina Tague last night. I don’t always catch facial features right, so Milady was first to catch it. “She’s faking the emotions.” Supposedly, she’s upset over her son’s state, but her eyes aren’t even a little wet, much less crying. She was better at faking the emotions than he (probably) is, but I suspect she’s almost as narcissistic as he is.
I have no doubt she helped create this monster and feels guilty about it. Some combination of abuse and enabling him through denying the seriousness of indications that he was dangerous. This woman wrote a letter to the parole board when her son was in prison the first time around for raping a14 year old when he was 15. She denied that it was an intentional act of harm by him, saying that he even walked the girl home. Insane. She is lying to herself as much as to everyone else.