Murder: Why Do People Do It?
@silenciobarnes (249)
United States
June 14, 2007 12:46pm CST
I heard that pure murder was strictly a human thing, meaning no other animal in nature just kills for no reason whatsoever.
But what is the driving force behind murder? If it's true that no other animal does it then man killing man has to be an anomaly. For we ARE animals. Is it our intellect that causes us to do it?I can understand children and younger people doing it because they don't really understand what they are doing. Their moral groundings are not yet anchoring them. No, I'm talking about grown people taken other people's lives for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with survival, food or clothing.
What are the reasons why?
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@sunshinecup (7871)
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14 Jun 07
Polar Bears, they kill for sport and don't eat it. At least that is what I seen on Discovery once.
Any way as for us humans, emotions I think is one cause. They take over and can really warp a person's mind into thinking, killing this person is OK. Then there are those whack jobs that are just nuts, that's a wire problem or chemical imbalance.
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@silenciobarnes (249)
• United States
18 Jun 07
I couldn't find any info about polar bears killing for sport, but from what I did read...they probably do. I learned a lot of interesting facts about the creature...so thank you for that.
As far as people go, well yes, emotions do play a large part. But what of those people that are just cold and calculating and can kill a man without no remorse. I'm not talking the ones that do it out of duty, but the ones that say "Hmmmm, the best thing to do in this situation is kill him..." and they do it, then go get breakfast.
You understand the type I'm talking about?
