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by girvo 4406 days ago
Oh for christ's sake, this is obviously pointless. You win. I give. Uncle. Whatever.

Also, you're wrong. And if you think misogyny (or whatever cause du jour we're using today) creates serial killers, and not mental illness then you're more than welcome to believe that. Plenty of psychologists say you're entirely incorrect[0], and I'll defer to them on this, but this "discussion" is utterly pointless, as you cherry pick whichever sentence you feel like pulling apart and ignoring the rest of it -- which are facts for the most part, not my opinion.

[0] http://time.com/114354/elliot-rodger-ucsb-misogyny/

Ps. You know, I'm not even arguing that cultural misogyny isn't a problem. I think it is, and am a big believer that we have a problem in our tech industry that we need to fix. What I'm arguing is that you're currently no better than those who blame video games for shootings, ignoring the real cause, which is broken, sick people.

EDIT:

Oh and you're wrong. Victims are not "overwhelmingly" women, nor is it "overwhelmingly" because of sadistic motives. See [1]:

  Characteristics of U.S. Serial Killer Victims
  
  Sex     N%
  Male   
  3,854   44.54%
  
  Female
  4,799   55.46%
[1] http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Serial%20Killer%20Information...
1 comments
gordonguthrie 4406 days ago
You're right I was generalising from Scotland/the UK. The definition of Serial Killer being 2 or more unrelating killings. In Scotland there is somewhere between 1 and 3 multiple murders a year, not all of which are serial killings by the strict definition.

http://www.scccj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/0124207_h...

In the serial killing figures you show the numbers are overwhelming dominated by the US where the high availability of guns make multiple murders more common - and the number of sexual serial killers much less as a proportion.

In Europe, I stand by my statement that serial killers are overwhelmingly, etc, etc...

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