• foggy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s weird to me the level of deranged guilt her diary entries show.

    We are responsible for our actions. I just wonder wtf was going on in her head that allowed her to keep doing it. She hated herself for it. Like a lot.

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      That’s the sort of evil I understand and can cope with. There is something wrong with her we don’t have the capacity to understand. Some chemical imbalance or growth pushing on her brain in a certain area.

      It’s the people with nothing wrong with them but allow evil to happen like the hospital administrators that gets me.

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          Sadly, we don’t understand the brain yet. Otherwise perhaps certain things could be visible. I know that there is some research how activity patterns in brains of “psychopaths” difffer from other people. But it is all still on shaky grounds.

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      1 year ago

      This is a mental health issue, do they have free mental health care in the uk?

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        There’s a big fucking difference between “i hate myself and want to die” and “might murder a half dozen babies this month”.

        I think you might be asking a bit much of public mental health care, yeah?

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      You’d have to look at what she got out of it emotionally. Other hospital killers did it for a combination of “They were a burden”, “I was putting them out of their misery” and a sense of godlike power of life and death. Some started doing it for seeming mercy reasons but got so comfortable with doing it that they started killing patients because they annoyed them.

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      I don’t think it’s possible to really understand a person that is that level of abnormal. Or rather, when you have empathy in a somewhat normal range, I think it’s really hard to understand how not having empathy works.