That urge to kill

[Queen Michael]

I never get that urge from disfigurement, but I have gotten it from people whose looks I just don't like.

 

[DugMachine]

Can't say I've ever truly wanted to kill someone but if you bring your kid to the movies for a rated R movie at 11pm and they're crying I will punt kick that little shit to the moon.

But that's just plain annoyance. For disfigured people... idk I don't feel too much. Initial shock and then I get over it.

 

[Ieyke]

There's this one guy, just some dumb half-French kid...mildly annoying, but nothing major at all. I have nothing at all against him (or the French)....but I have an instinctive urge to beat the ever-loving crap out of him every time I see him.

No idea why.

He's the only person where anything remotely like that happens.

Well...there's also all the various French guys in Paris who look a lot like him. I have sort of a shadow of that urge to beat the crap out of him when I ran into them.

*shrug*

 

[The White Hunter]

Can't say I've ever felt that way because of someone's appearance... some mild disgust maybe but never as far as actually wanting to attack someone, still not really problem as long as it stays in your head. Those who foil my schemes on the other hand... no death is too painful.

That reminds me, how's that super cola-drill working out for ya?

OT: Meh. Just don';t actually kill them. I get the same thing when morbidly obese people walk 3 abreast down the fucking high street and I can't get past them and they move at the speed of treacle on fucking Pluto.

But I don't kill them so it's fine. Sometimes push them out of my way though.

 

[Griffolion]

Okay so I was sat on the bus today and a guy got on who had a disfigurement on his face. I don't know if it was burn or a rash or what but he had a huge red mark across his face and around his eye. It wasn't particularly horrible or anything but as soon as I saw him I felt some instinctive urge to attack him.

I never actually WOULD attack someone or treat them differently just because they have a condition but I always feel that urge when I see people with missing limbs or growths or something. I thought it might have been an instinctive fear of disease but surely that would make me want to get away rather than kill them?

Does anyone else feel this or am I just a psychopath in waiting or something?

First off, psychopathy isn't this condition that see's you just randomly becoming a serial killer one day. It's the complete lack of emotional connection, and thus remorse, you feel which both heightens ones chance to commit heinous crimes (because you lack the capability to think "oh, if they did that to me, i wouldn't like that") and lowers your chances to regret it afterwards. It can be hereditary through parental lines, brought on environmentally through toxins causing neurological damage or accidents causing trauma to specific areas to the brain, and also nurtured through life and growing up if there was negligence/trauma in your childhood.

I'd say you saw this guy who had been disfigured, and because he didn't fit into your schema of how a "normal" person looks (IE without disfigurement), your brain enacted a fight response as a knee jerk reaction to a stimulus that was outside your inner-consciousness' framework for that specific object (in this case, a person). There may be other things at work, linking into schemas, your brain may have seen the disfigurement as a sign of the scars of fighting, thus the person is likely to fight, and somehow thought it wise to prepare you for it.

The human brain is weird, this is what I learnt doing 3 years of neuropsych at university.

But the fact you're aware of what happened and that you thought it strange means in all likelihood that you're not a "psychopath".