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Originally Posted by Cowperson
What stands out solely for me is, even if you have strong convictions, going about killing 90 teenagers through an hour and a half, continuing to pull that trigger even after the initial thrill/shock of seeing the first of them exploding and falling. At some point, you would think some kind of mental fatigue would set in, that the screams would create some self-doubt. But he kept at it.
A well-motivated, sane person could have done the bomb and started the attack on the island but only a truly insane one could have kept hunting and shooting for another hour or more.
Cowperson
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I don't know if that bears out when related to history, not everyone who mass murders is irrational, for the most part history tells us that the worst maniacs are merely politically committed or cause committed. Most of the members of Pol Pots organization were committed to a political cause and saw the removal of elements of society as a requirement to meet thier ends.
Not every war criminal in Hitlers army or in Bosnia or the soldiers shooting protesters in the middle east are thrill killers or joy killers who kill for an irrational need to kill, they see themselves as executing their duty for the greater good.
In this case when you look at his beliefs and manifesto, this guy is a political animal,he has an overpowering belief in his politics and believes that his beliefs will usher in a better era for his country and for Europe, so the human element where you would suddenly realize that you were wrong would never enter into the equation.
I doubt that sadism even entered his formula, he was sadly able to transcend his doubts and literally overcome his humanity for what he saw as the greater good.