What was he thinking...?

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I heard about this when it happened on Boxing Day last year, and was genuinely shocked

Now the trail is over, and Kiaran "Psycho" Stapleton has been charged and sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment.

The thing I cant understand is the guys attitude to the whole thing. Reading the article:

Stapleton laughed as he stood over the body of his victim
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The killer showed no emotion as the sentence was passed
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How can someone become so desensatised to killing another person to the point of laughing about it?

He didnt kill him for revenge or cause he was in a gang. He didnt shot him cause he though he was a threat...he basically shot him for ***** and giggles

The same can be said for the Batman Shooter, and other murders - convicted or otherwise...

So my question, or thought really, is why do people kill others with no motive or thought...are they a production of their environments? Is it because of computer games (like the Daily Fail and others would led people to believe)? Is it cause their parents didnt give them enough cuddles as a kid?

What do you think GD?
 
If you hold value to life and have empathy towards others you will never understand a person who dose not hold the same values as true, they just are that way and as much as science and medical communities try to understand them through study they only have scratched the surface so far.
 
I don't think the batman killer acted for laughs. He has serious delusions.

Stapleton is just an animal. Not saying he's worse than the Batman killer, but I think he 'enjoyed' it more than the Batman killer did.
 
That guy just seems like a text-book psychopath - no emotional empathy and indeed an inability to feel means they're capable of horrific acts.

As to the question of whether these people are born this way or whether their environment has something to do with it is a question we continue to struggle with. It's obvious from research that some have a tendency towards this behaviour when they're children, i.e. cruelty to animals, and there is a pattern of that leading to adulthood problems with violence, so if it is environmental it happens early.
I don't know whether its genetic, environmental or a combination of both but sadly we seem to always have a small number of people capable of extreme acts.
 
It's certainly not because of violent computer games or films - in my opinion that seems to me to be nothing more than an excuse made up by the press and politicians in order to attempt to explain the actions of said detached individuals. The majority of us are easily able to determine the difference between right and wrong or good and bad. I'm sure you'll be given many opinions in this thread you've created Trixilux but I'd guess many experts far more qualified to judge than us will investigate your question over the coming months / years and I seriously doubt they'll be able to fully answer your question either!
 
I know there will never be an answer...not truly, but to hear theories and have a discussion about this is thought provoking for a Friday afternoon

Thought it would be a good topic of discussion away from cheating Celebrities and the Olympics :)
 
There are many different reasons and reasonings people bring up, In the end someone is now dead and it was this person who killed them...

Enviroment
Upbringing
Mental Disorder
Circumstance

Does any of this condone it...some effects it.. but in this case even if it was because of Mental Disorder, in the long run, with treatment and rehabilitation, that person is still dead and his family and friends lives changed forever,he did it in cold blood without remorse.

Lock him up and throw away the key.
 
Reading up on some psychology journals recently, there is correlation between males who watch my little pony and sociopaths, much in the same way that young arsonist become sociopaths later in life.
 
KaiserDJG said:
There are many different reasons and reasonings people bring up, In the end someone is now dead and it was this person who killed them...

Enviroment
Upbringing
Mental Disorder
Circumstance

Does any of this condone it...some effects it.. but in this case even if it was because of Mental Disorder, in the long run, with treatment and rehabilitation, that person is still dead and his family and friends lives changed forever,he did it in cold blood without remorse.

Lock him up and throw away the key.
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Well the killer has been quoted saying:

"I love prison.I watch Coronation Street. I have got a fat canteen. Lock me up for 65 years."

Looking to the jury from the witness box, he added: "Does this face look bothered?

"I have even got a new rug and bedding coming for my cell. I'm not bothered."
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And they have said that its not likely that he will ever be released anyway unless he has a assessment to ascertain if he is still a threat to society
 
Some people simply don't function within the norms of society.

There are lots of reasons for it (none of them are excuses but they are reasons) ranging from mental illness, to serious abuse, to abnormal education). This man is obviously one of those..he has no empathy, no understanding of boundaries and norms and he doesn't think in the same way as most of us. He won't actually know it was wrong or strange or even a bad thing to do, to him it seems perfectly reasonable.

This isn't an excuse and I don't condone it but I would be pretty certain he has no real concept of how we all would feel about this sort of act. He probably showed no emotion because he didn't 'feel' anything.

He'll be difficult inside.
 
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