You don't kill what you can have, you kill what you believe you can't have.
To kill someone/something is an act of power. In other words, you kill someone to gain power over them, or to use that to gain power over others. I don't kill my girlfriend (for extreme example) because I do not need to kill her to feel safe and secure in my own skin. In other words, if she decides to leave me, I am secure enough that I can find someone else, and that it isn't the end of the world.
Serial killers kill to hold onto things, to psychologically 'eternalize' the person. Since they were the last person they were with, they therefore exist 'forever' in life with them. This prevents them from 'physically' leaving, or so they think. It actually doesn't, which reinforces their own insecurity that people will leave them, so they need to go out and 'eternalize' another, until they too leave, and the cycle goes on and on, until they are captured. Even then, killers spend hours and hours holding onto their victims since they fundamentally believe they are not worthy in and of themselves to hold onto anyone. Of course, killing people is not a characteristic to endear you to many people, either, so its kinda like drinking salt-water when you are thirsty.
2007-03-21 05:44:15
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answered by Khnopff71 7
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