Are We Sick?

[Sam Flynn]

But do you also have an interest in new serial killers and horror films?

I don't, personally. My interest in JTR is primarily historical, although I have read up on a few other high-profile serial killers. I'm not particularly a "true crime" buff, and I don't really like horror films either.

[albie]

I told a friend of mine that I watched a documentary about Ian Brady and he said "Oh I would never watch stuff like that. It's other people's pain."

I had no response. What could I have said? Weeks later we were talking about it again and I said that I watch such shows to better understand evil. Evil is one of the big mysteries of life, I told him. He wasn't convinced. I recall a documentary about Stephen King and apparently he kept a scrap book as a child full of news articles about crime and serial killers. When asked why he made it he said, rather weakly, that he wanted to know evil people so he could spot them and avoid them. I thought, yeah, whatever. You just love serial killers.

Now you may say that Jack The Ripper happened a long time ago and therefore there is no one suffering. But do you also have an interest in new serial killers and horror films?
Do you think we are just sick?