Tag: inspiration

tedbundy:

Let’s consider the justification of a soldier who develops… « rationalization » is the word… that you’d develop to cope with shooting large numbers of his fellow human beings that he didn’t know.

Well, first of all, he didn’t know ‘em. So what! In the urban masses… in our urban society, we don’t know a whole lot of people, so, uh, uh, uh… now I suppose there’s also (the rationalization) « He would have gotten me if I hadn’t gotten him. » Which might not fit into what we’ve got here, but on the other hand, uh, there might be some mass murderers who might say, « Well, she or he would have hurt me if I hadn’t hurt them. » And they might also say, « Well, there’s so many people, they won’t be missed. »

So what’s one less? What’s one less person on the face of the planet? What difference will it make a hundred years from now? Again, they are rationalizations, but not rational; justifications but not just. 

That could apply to any number of different things, but it also applies to the persons who are able… who are trying to cope with their need to kill. They’re not coping with what’s really driving them to do that. Mainly, they don’t know what it is. They can’t see it. They don’t want to see it – so they come up with those and other justifications. – Ted Bundy about the justification of murder.

lovely-loathsome:

While it has been theorized by some such as John Backderf, teenage friend and author of the award-winning graphic novel My Friend Dahmer, that Jeffrey Dahmer began drinking heavily in order to suppress his burgeoning fantasies involving murder and death, the truth is far more depressing and pathetic.  Dahmer explained to detectives Patrick Kennedy and Dennis Murphy that the real reason why he began abusing alcohol in high school was to alleviate his extreme shyness.  As Kennedy recounts in his novel Dahmer Detective, Dahmer told him, “I was kind of a loner and pretty shy around people.  My parents were not big drinkers but they kept a fully stocked bar in the home.  I was lonely and started to drink.  It made me feel better; I could talk to people and fit in, but I wasn’t that good at it and would usually end up drunk and alone in my house.”  By the time he reached his senior year of high school, Dahmer was a full-blown alcoholic, addicted to the soothing balm of booze.  His urge to drink more than likely mirrored his urge to kill, as he had neither the will nor the emotional strength to fight it, and once he gave into it, he succumbed completely.