2007-01-01 11:08:43 · 20 answers · asked by whatever_5089 2 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
Okay I am tired of people thinking that I will become another Jeffery Dahmar because I have an obsession over him. My "obsession" is mostly based on curiosity and telling everybody that he wasn't crazy, he was just a cannibal (animals are cannibals, why don't we call THEM crazy). Also for whoever sent the excerpt from Wikipedia- I already read that. If people are going to tell me I need medical/mental help screw them. :)
2007-01-02 05:14:13 · update #1
If by obsession you mean that you admire him then I would say yes. But if you mean you're interested in what made him do what he did, his psychology etc then no, in fact I think serial killers are very interesting, they can teach us a lot about the human mind, and when studied they can even give us behaviour queues of future killers.
2007-01-01 11:13:07 · answer #1 · answered by photoenhance 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES , I think you may have some issues going on. Obsessing over Jeffery Dahmar, I wouldn't tell to many people!
2007-01-01 11:31:17 · answer #2 · answered by reidtara@rogers.com 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the poster, "Clever Girl," is probably going to be "cleverly unemployed" most of her life. Sorry, Clever Girl, you won't make a very good Lawyer, Judge, Psychologist, Criminal Justice Professor, Law Professor, Doctor of Forensics, Doctor of Pathology, Politician, Writer, Journalist, or any other high paying job where you get paid to think. But you will make a great Janitor cleaning up the offices of such people. Good luck!!
2007-01-01 11:23:23 · answer #3 · answered by mosha9999 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An obsession with anything isn't ever a good idea so, no. An interest is ok. He was weirdo, not too much to ponder there.
2007-01-01 11:14:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I would think so (obsession) unless you are doing research for your career in criminal justice or abnormal psychology. Obsession with anything is wrong (period.) Simple curiousity, I would consider ok.
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Jeffery Dahmer was officially indicted on 17 murder charges, which were reduced to 15. The murder cases were already so notorious that the authorities never bothered to charge him in the attempted murder of Edwards. His trial began in July 1992. With evidence overwhelmingly against him, Dahmer chose to plead guilty but insane, arguing that his necrophiliac urges were so strong that he couldn't control them.
The judge found Dahmer guilty and sane on 15 counts of murder and sentenced him to 15 life terms, totaling 943 years in prison, one of the harshest prison sentences ever imposed in Wisconsin's legal history.
Dahmer served his time at the Columbia Correctional Institute in Portage, Wisconsin, where he became more and more religious over time and ultimately declared himself a born-again Christian. On November 28, 1994, Dahmer and another inmate named Jesse Anderson were brutally beaten to death by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver while on work detail in the prison. Dahmer's death was especially gruesome compared to Anderson's. Scarver caught Dahmer as he tried to run and proceeded to break a broom-stick and inserted it almost three feet into Dahmer's anus and smashed his skull with an iron bar, killing him within minutes. Much controversy surrounded both the decision to allow Dahmer such a privilege as work detail, as well as the pairing of Dahmer with Scarver, a man with a history of brutality who was in for murder. The fact that Scarver was black (and that most of Dahmer's victims were black) did not escape note by critics.
After Dahmer's death and subsequent legal proceedings, Dahmer's remains were cremated and divided in half between his birth mother Joyce, and his father and stepmother. His brain was donated to scientific study. (Lionel and Shari).
2007-01-01 11:14:07 · answer #5 · answered by TurnMeOut 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look lady its ok to fantasize about getting ate by a man, but that dude eats people for dinner, big difference there. So in answer to your question YES it is abnormal seek professional help.
2007-01-01 11:11:46 · answer #6 · answered by Biker 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not if it's only because you can't comprehend or understand why he did the horrific things that he did and want to learn more about him and what made him do his hellacious crimes.
But if it's because you idolize him, then yes there's something wrong with it hun.
2007-01-01 11:11:23 · answer #7 · answered by Jen 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you think he was right for killing all of those people yes it is, but if you think he is cute, then that is your opinion! You can like who ever you want too. But what kind of obsession are we talking about her??
2007-01-01 11:13:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are having thoughts of eating people's flesh, yes, there is something wrong with you.
2007-01-01 11:12:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
umm, what kind of an obsession, youre not going to go around and do the things he did are you
2007-01-01 11:10:37 · answer #10 · answered by Kelly H 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋