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It’s a good point though.
Any of us that think we’re likely to identify the suspect through Internet trawls are truly living a fantasy.
Having said that, I think there are quite a few of us who want to understand and are fascinated by the range of human behavior and the dynamics and pathology that leads to tragedies such as these.
What motivates a human to take away the life of another? How do people end up in such vulnerable situations? What does it say about our communities, our values and morals.
To me, this is what’s interesting.
If there are people who feel schadenfreude at another’s misfortune or intellectual superiority over authorities, I feel sorry for them.
Biologically, it is not such an uncommon behavior. Remember all crusades, where young males would get together and travel far away to do exactly the same, kill, rape and rob. How did all our major empires form? Alexander the Great, the hero, crucified all men of Tyre when he took the city, and sold women and children into slavery. He did it to a lot of places, and now is considered a hero in history.
What I want to say is, maybe the killing instinct sits in more people than we think, because evolutionary, we are not that far gone from tribal people.
With one caveat. Typical youth violence is probably more straightforward, and these kids who are in today’s gangs, in old times would have been the crusaders or the mercenaries. This behavior is not atypical and as men mature, they grow out of it. Settle down.
The type that this YBG shows, chasing children or young women, has the element of a serial killer, and serial killers are somewhat unaccepted by their peers and do not enjoy typical peer activities. They would not fight in groups, they don’t join groups, they don’t even abide by the rules of young male groups, because they like something totally different.