I Am a Psychopath
Torturing And/or Killing Animals...
One thing I never understood was the predisposition psychopaths have in their early childhood to torturing/killing animals...
Personally, I never had the urge to. Not because I felt bad for them, but I think it's because they can't understand what's happening to them. Same thing goes with infants and mentally retarded individuals; if you look an animal or a baby in the eye and say "okay, now I'm gonna stab you in the face with this spoon!" you're not going to get any reaction from them...just a stupid stare.
Now, I can understand the feeling of control one derives from killing something/anything, but for me it was just never enough to actually make me go out of my way to do it. For me, knowledge of the world around me and the comprehension of it is essential, so putting an animal through torture seems to me a waste of time if the thing can't understand what's being done to it.
Maybe those of you who have experienced the drive behind it can better explain. I'm honestly, yet respectfully, stumped.
One thing I never understood was the predisposition psychopaths have in their early childhood to torturing/killing animals...
Personally, I never had the urge to. Not because I felt bad for them, but I think it's because they can't understand what's happening to them. Same thing goes with infants and mentally retarded individuals; if you look an animal or a baby in the eye and say "okay, now I'm gonna stab you in the face with this spoon!" you're not going to get any reaction from them...just a stupid stare.
Now, I can understand the feeling of control one derives from killing something/anything, but for me it was just never enough to actually make me go out of my way to do it. For me, knowledge of the world around me and the comprehension of it is essential, so putting an animal through torture seems to me a waste of time if the thing can't understand what's being done to it.
Maybe those of you who have experienced the drive behind it can better explain. I'm honestly, yet respectfully, stumped.