Sickos vs. cold-blooded killers

In My Humble Opinion
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I don’t know why, but most people seem to think that the Jeffrey Dahmers or the sicko of this thread are worse than plain murderers. I disagree.

I would say that the person who does not have any pathological drive to kill to fulfill some fantasy but rather simply kills cold-bloodedly for money or out of convenience is much worse. This person’s mind is a lot closer to yours and mine, yet he has made a conscious decision that the lives of others are of no value.

For instance, read this (lengthy) description of Murder, Inc or this piece about the Iceman.

I personally have no real idea what is like to desire to kill or torture someone for reasons akin to sexual pleasure. I cannot put myself in such a person’s shoes and with certainty say what I would do or what I would not do. They are a mystery.

But the contract killer or the woman who milks old men for their savings and offs them – I understand their motives and I can condemn them. I have the same needs as they and am disgusted by choices they made. They sicken me.

If anyone “deserves” to get the death penalty, it is the cold-blooded killers. But the sickos? They almost don’t seem human to me. More like a rampaging elephant or mad dog. They might need to be killed out of necessity, but probably not nowadays. They are so alien, that I can’t say whether they deserve it.

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Sickos vs. cold-blooded killers: Sounds like a good idea for an episode of Celebrity Death Match.

Ranking murderers or their crimes on a disgust spectrum is a hard task because personal emotions are the determining factor.

My initial intrique almost turned to physical wrtetching after seeing both Iceman specials on HBO. That rat story sdtill makes my skin crawl.

Can there really be a “worse” between sane evil and insane evil?

The more I think about it, my emotions run highest with thoughts of the victim as opposed to the murderer. When it’s children that get killed, from either crack addicted boyfriends beating up their girlfriends kids, or delusional mothers lining up her brood for their last bath, or absent-minded fathers who allow their childern to cook to death in the back seat while he’s out bow hunting or even intoverted mothers who roll their kids off a boat launch, I become most enraged and sickened.

The most infuriating thing is the abused “Insanity Defense.” How disgusting. In the name of civility the system goes all soft and mushy. I prefer the more uncivilized way they do things in Wyoming, where the use of temporary insanity are prohibited under state law.