Why do psycho killer enjoy killing? What makes them go insane?

Question

Murder, is wrong. Why do many people enjoy killing?

Answer 1

In 2002, psychologist Stephen Porter (Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia) conducted interviewed inmates serving time for murder, 34 of these scored highly on a psychopath test.

Despite many investigators' assumption that psychopathic criminals lack self-control and often act impulsively, most of the psychopathic Canadian killers had planned the ruthless, cold-blooded murders that they had committed.

One psychopathic offender murdered his ex-girlfriend to stop her from interfering with his new relationship. Another psychopathic inmate arranged and committed the murder of his wife to cash in her life insurance policy.

From that, I do not know if you can say they enjoyed killing. They certainly thought about it, but saw it as a means to an end.

As to why they kill (psychopaths are not seen as being insane) there are many different schools of thought.

Evolutionary psychologists regard psychopathy as an inherited personality style that has evolved because glib, deceitful individuals—as a minority within a larger population of trusting folk—often reproduce with much success. Probably in part because the successful people have some psychopath traits (CEO's or lawyers).

Others regard psychopathy as the result of a still-unspecified genetic disorder. The inherited defect interferes with the workings of the brain's emotion system, which is centered in the amygdala, a structure especially concerned with perceiving dangerous situations.

Then some people view psychopathic personalities as the product of an attention deficit. Psychopaths focus well on their explicit goals but ignore incidental information that provides perspective and guides behavior, Newman holds. Most other people, as they take action, unconsciously consult such information, for instance, rules of conduct in social settings and nonverbal signs of discomfort in those around them.

Answer 2

So is hurting someone on purpose. But many people do that, don't they?
Most people just make their own definitions of right and wrong according to what they feel like doing. Psycho killers believe they are doing a good thing by killing the prostitutes or whoever is on their target list.
There's no chemical imbalance; some people lack a proper value system. People who've been violent and believe in subdueing others are more likely to kill others and justify their actions with "he deserved it because he was insane/bad for the society."

Answer 3

First of all, legally and psychiatrically, serial killers are usually not insane or psychotic.

The majority of serial killers are psychopaths, who have a personality disorder making them self-centered and indifferent to the suffering of others. Psychopaths lack emotional depth, and so their lives are dominated by primitive urges and emotional responses similar to a child throwing a temper tantrum.

They seek increasing levels of danger and excitement as an addict seeks more of a drug because they are constantly bored with life. It gives them a feeling of power and invincibility to manipulate, trick, or dominate someone; and having the power of life and death over someone—playing god—is an intense high for them. Often in serial murder, sexual sadism is mixed in: They kill because it sexually arouses them, and they may have other paraphilias like necrophilia thrown in to the perverted pot.

Serial murder, by the way, usually starts out as fantasy, which are consistently reinforced through the feelings of power and elation. If sexual sadism or another paraphilia is involved in the fantasy, masturbation typically reinforces the fantasy. Eventually, the offender desires to act out his or her fantasy, and the psychopath is the kind of person who lacks the empathy which would stop others from acting out violent fantasies.

A psychopath might also kill for more practical reasonings. If a rich father-in-law has given them a fortune in his will, they might find a way to murder him just to go the inheritance sooner. The key thing to remember is that whether a psychopath is violent or merely an embezzling white-collar criminal, he or she sees others as objects to gratify his or her desires only.

A few serial killers are not psychopathic but are instead genuinely insane. Psychiatry considers them psychotic because they are compelled to kill under the influence of command hallucinations and delusional beliefs about reality. Most people suffering this level of psychosis, though, are too disorganized and detached from reality to successfully kill undetected for very long.

Answer 4

Do you enjoy, say sex? Their joys are just misplaced by there lack of conscience. Some are also mentally deranged, aside from being psychopathic. Not all are insane; they are just deprived of their humanity. The have less than average people do.

Answer 5

some don't go craxy, they are born crazy and have anti-scoail personality disorder (aka sociopathes) they have no conscience.
murder is a high,it stimulates endorphins.

I don't think we understand fully why sociopaths do what they do.
theuy tend to give into their anger more, maybe they are more angry and thus more violent. most are self-absorbed and on some level we all enjoy some revenge, and when you have no guilt there is no limit on what kind of revenge you get

Answer 6

Some people have a chemical imbalance in the brain that keeps them from seeing "right" and "wrong". Others can be driven by certain situations.

Answer 7

if someone gave a guy and eight pound block hammer and told him to beat your feet with it, sooner or later i'm going to throw you a shotgun and at that point u will understand many new things about yourself

Answer 8

Don't think I am crazy, but during my years of studying Psychology ...I read and read about the most infamous of serial killers...madmen.....I know em' all....and most of them had a mental disorder....were abused as children....or just wanted attention...and got it the hard and painful way....

Answer 9

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