Jon Guy: This has been pointed out to me before, Christer, but I am referring to the interview Sutcliffe gave to the police immediately following his confession. In return for information Sutcliffe asked that he could break the news to his wife himself, and the floodgates opened..
Thatīs a cute story, no doubt. But I would advice strongly against believing in it.
The world is full of full-blood psychopaths who have cried their eyes out in many a situation. The point of the matter, though, is that psychopaths FEIGN feelings! They know when to cry, when to laugh, when to look devastated - and how to gain advantages from it.
A psychopath is typically a person with a crippled sense of emotions, driven by his or her own ego and convinced that he or she is a superior human being. Yeah, itīs a rough picture, but it is not far off target.
So the floodgates that Sutcliffe opened are more likely than not to be acting - IF he is a real psychopath, that is.
His story of how he crawled away on his belly, scared stiff, is something that must be taken with a ton o salt - psychopaths do not feel fear the way we do. In a crowd that panics, the psychopath does not cotton on - he stays calm. And so on.
We are speaking of a single isolated occurence here, so itīs hard do be sure, but overall, when a psychopath cries and shows emotion, it is all acting and nothing else.
I don`t doubt it exists. I was just giving you one example of a murderer, similar to the Ripper, who did run.
Of course, we sonīt know if the killer resembled the Ripper. We can o0nly say that his deeds were superficially similar to an extent.
If he ran, he ran because he had taken a consious decision to do so, again IF he was a psychopath.
Normal people react with the startle reflex and the tension in the muscles - we run first, and then we ask ourselves if it is the right thing to do.
Psychopaths begin by asking themselves: should I run? Is it advantageous? Or is it more fun to stay put and fool a lot of dumb people?
The reflex does not come into play.
I hope you can see the difference, and I hope that you can take on board that these mechanisms mean that it is far, far more credible that a psychopath will stay put at a murder site and bluff it out, than it is that a normal person would do so.
And that - as you will understand - is the message I am trying to get across. Or alechmere, to be more to the point.
The best,
Fisherman
Thatīs a cute story, no doubt. But I would advice strongly against believing in it.
The world is full of full-blood psychopaths who have cried their eyes out in many a situation. The point of the matter, though, is that psychopaths FEIGN feelings! They know when to cry, when to laugh, when to look devastated - and how to gain advantages from it.
A psychopath is typically a person with a crippled sense of emotions, driven by his or her own ego and convinced that he or she is a superior human being. Yeah, itīs a rough picture, but it is not far off target.
So the floodgates that Sutcliffe opened are more likely than not to be acting - IF he is a real psychopath, that is.
His story of how he crawled away on his belly, scared stiff, is something that must be taken with a ton o salt - psychopaths do not feel fear the way we do. In a crowd that panics, the psychopath does not cotton on - he stays calm. And so on.
We are speaking of a single isolated occurence here, so itīs hard do be sure, but overall, when a psychopath cries and shows emotion, it is all acting and nothing else.
I don`t doubt it exists. I was just giving you one example of a murderer, similar to the Ripper, who did run.
Of course, we sonīt know if the killer resembled the Ripper. We can o0nly say that his deeds were superficially similar to an extent.
If he ran, he ran because he had taken a consious decision to do so, again IF he was a psychopath.
Normal people react with the startle reflex and the tension in the muscles - we run first, and then we ask ourselves if it is the right thing to do.
Psychopaths begin by asking themselves: should I run? Is it advantageous? Or is it more fun to stay put and fool a lot of dumb people?
The reflex does not come into play.
I hope you can see the difference, and I hope that you can take on board that these mechanisms mean that it is far, far more credible that a psychopath will stay put at a murder site and bluff it out, than it is that a normal person would do so.
And that - as you will understand - is the message I am trying to get across. Or alechmere, to be more to the point.
The best,
Fisherman
Comment