Huntley targeted the young and Shipman targeted the old. You can't say it's revenge or anything like that. What were their chidhoods like? Usually people who become killers have had very disturbing childhoods
2006-09-08 02:02:06 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
However, some who have had bad childhoods do not go on to become killers
2006-09-08 02:07:23 · update #1
I don't know, I haven't met them, let alone been their counsellor or their spiritual guide.
I followed Soham more than the other story. Ian may be a "psychopath" (see reference).
Why do some people develop psychopathies? My own thinking is that the most likely influence to pull a person in that direction would be a trauma or series of traumas that makes it feel desperately essential to switch off connection with other people's emotions. Fighting a war can do that to one. So can being helpless in the presence of torture or abuse ~ e.g. in a concentration camp. Or having to give torture or abuse in fear of one's own life. (Imagine!)
And then a person who has been through all that in one life comes back in another with a psychopathic predisposition, which is then reinfirced by childhood events which feel cruel and heartless but which another child would react less anti- or rather dis-socially to.
2006-09-08 06:58:01 · answer #1 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harold Shipman Childhood
2016-12-08 20:06:32 · answer #2 · answered by schecter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion I believe that people who take the lives of innocent people for nothing more then personal pleasure are indeed psychopaths but I believe there is more to it than that, I believe that there must be some kind of brain damage, something that they are born with or has occured in childhood. My serial killers report serious head injuries in childhood, could this be the link? Having a bad childhood can not be 'blamed' for somebody taking another persons life, hundreds and thousands of people have bad childhoods and go on to be loving caring adults, there has to be more to it than that. In saying that, thousands of children suffer from serious head injuries in childhood and dont turn to murder, so could it be that there is a certain part of the brain that if effected causes a person to become psychopathic.
2006-09-10 09:35:01 · answer #3 · answered by joanne v 72 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its interesting there are no REAL answers here to the question mostly pointless tabloid ramblings calling them psychos, loonies , nutters etc. which doesnt explain anyrthing.
Maybe this is because nobody really knows what makes ppl behave this way.
If we could answer the question i guess we'd start filtering them out at an early age and start err.. killing THEM!
For me the more important question is what to do with them after weve had our 'day in court ' with them.
Personally, I think euthanasia should be actively encouraged for these ppl.Why its seen as a bad thing when these people actually suceed in killing themselves in prison is beyond me. Seems very sadistic of society to leave people in prison for 30 or more years. Think they should have an option of euthanasia if they want it. However I am NOT supportive of forced euthanasia(capital punishment) which is little more than legalised murder and no better than the murdereres actions.
2006-09-11 23:33:59 · answer #4 · answered by sheffieldblokeuk 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think for Shipman it was greed and for Huntley it was just a sick, twisted mind. Chilhood plays a big part in every individual life but what you want to be is completely up to you and no one can take that away. There are two paths in life, right and wrong what you choose is up to you.
2006-09-08 02:14:08 · answer #5 · answered by Taz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything is put down to childhood..... bring back hanging that;s all they deserve. They both had good childhoods by all accounts, blamr media for huntley and greed for shipman.
2006-09-08 02:04:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
are they sick, there are many ways of killing, is a soldier in a war sick for killing? or does he just have freedom from society and may even enjoy the kill.
I imagine its a power trip combined with psychosis leading to a severe lack of empathy. Plus there must be an attraction to breaking the rules.
But I dont know what really drives them, I have never killed a human so I wouldnt know.
2006-09-08 05:49:17 · answer #7 · answered by Dirk Wellington-Catt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything or Nothing. There is no absolute answer. If you could answer that question with 100% accuracy, you would win a nobel prize. Nothing in psychology is 100% accurate.
2006-09-08 02:05:03 · answer #8 · answered by a_facchini 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the two killers are completely different Shipman was much more dedicated and seemed to plan his killings to a greater extent and also saved the NHS countless millions on hip replacements and meals on wheels
2006-09-08 02:05:08 · answer #9 · answered by Barry Von Leotard III 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
any number of reasons but it could be because of a defect in their brain which doesnt allow them to think things through, and they dont think things like this as wrong, or it could be due to their childhood and things that have happened to them and now they want to show other people how it feels
2006-09-08 11:01:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋