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LadyFunkenstein said:Oh, there most certainly is a category of people who kill for heroics. Their intention may not be to actually kill but to bring someone to the brink of death and then bring them back thus becoming a hero. What you state here, is of course yet another reason. There are probably dozens.
Distinguishing one from another isn't a matter of "dressing" it up. We live in a society with a prison system which is supposed to be rehabilitative.
When it comes to treatment, the guy who can only get an erection when he is choking a hooker is far different than the guy who has killed 14 people for drug money.
Serial killers is what I'm discussing specifically, so although some people might want to commit murder to accomplish a goal, for the serial killer, murder is the goal. How they get there has to do with their particular brain, so there are as many reasons as there are brains.
I mean the justifications they use to get to their goal of murder is the "dressing"
I don't think the system we have, penal or psychological, is the least bit rehabilitative.
Treatment may vary, but results are usually the same. Get out, your brain's going to tell you to do it again. An individual's mind driven to that level of compulsion can produce a great more anxiety on the subject than the deterrent can. People get better at hiding it or denying it, but they don't stop wanting to do it.