Comments on: Those NBC videos

By: Jimmy J.

Jimmy J. — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:32:01 +0000

My daughter, a psychologist, treats people like Cho occasionally in her practice. She sees that they cannot identify other human beings as having any worth, because they themselves feel worthless. This is the classic sociopath who has no empathy for other humans. It is the classic “I’m not OK, therefore you’re not OK” type scenario. That is what makes it easy for them to kill. They are essentially devoid of empathy. The less dangerous sociopaths use people by scamming them, robbing them, humiliating them, etc. They are dysfunctional, but not insane. They know what they’re doing and carry out organized plans to make others miserable or, in the worst case scenarios, torture or kill people.

She always knows when she meets one of these clients that it is going to be extremely difficult to make any progress or promote any change. They are very difficult to treat, usually ending the treatment after only a few sessions. If the client seems bent on violence she can report him/her to the authorities, but, as in Cho’s case there may not be much done.

IMO we need to do more study of this type individual. Psychology professionals and law enforcement need to work together to identify these people and track them. They should especially be identified as unfit to own weapons of any kind.

Will this happen? IMO, not likely.

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:52:32 +0000

about my post above…
when I say “you” I mean to those that feel the need to be that “you”…
I don’t mean “you”…
Do you get what I mean?????

By: doorkeeper

doorkeeper — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:37:50 +0000

plain old fashioned possession. ask the evil in, and it will oblige.

and schizophrenics almost never commit violence. at least to my knowledge.

I don’t see psychopaths and sociopaths as mentally ill, as such. Mental illness usually involves not understanding that actions are wrong. They know it’s wrong, they don’t care.

better quit rambling, or someone will measure me for a white coat.

By: riceburner147

riceburner147 — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:11:19 +0000

If it bleeds, it LEADS ! (It might not be right, but its fact)

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:06:19 +0000

Mr. Hicks, though he promised he’d drink the STFU and not wallow in this, just couldn’t (like the rest of us, it seems) help himself
and has posted again on this sordid subject: http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/329515.html

There are some good insights in some of the comments thereto, as well, some of them all contrary and disagreeable, er, disagreeing.

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:56:53 +0000

The jump to “understanding” the twisted psycho vice spending even half of that time learning who the victims were is what gets me. Why do we give this fool more than a few sentances describing who he was. If you can’t see the evil in the acts, you have bigger problems that I can imagine. No, NBC et al aired the crap purely out of a desire to increase ratings. Why they don’t put forth that effort on the families of the victims, and the good young people who were all seemingly on a very good path towards benefiting society is what fascinates me. I’d watch that video… I don’t really care much what happened to Cho. Whatever made him tick, doesn’t really matter all that much now. And don’t give me that crap about understanding so we may predict the next one, hah, we will NEVER be able to predict it. This was just so much slowing down to rubberneck the crash scene on the freeway…