Elliot Rogers, The Killer and The Manifesto

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These days, in certain circles, "playdates" are arranged for children's social occasions, unlike in the old days, when kids just made friends on their own. It's usually for "safety reasons."

Ummm...I don't have that many specific memories of my childhood. But if I wanted to, I could write a 200 page story about it, in great detail. Some of the things would be things I actually remembered and then embellished, and some would be things I know because family members have told me about them. And some would be made up. But just because I can write a 200 page story about my childhood does not mean I have a memory any better than anyone else's. It means I am a good storyteller.

It is also easy for people to reinvent history to support whatever purpose they have at hand. He was angry and narcissistic, with a strong sense of entitlement, that much is clear. Whether he was typical or not, that alone would influence both his immediate perceptions and his recollections. This is not an autobiography. It is an excuse, written with the intention, not of accurately portraying his life, but of blaming someone else--apparently all women everywhere--for his unhappiness, his faults...and his final act.

http://www.neuroscientificallychallenge ... of-science

Here's a direct link to that article.

Plenty of us have suffered extremely traumatic childhoods, shedloads of abuse, and traumatic rejections well into adulthood without wanting to kill anybody. There are people in my life who truly did make my life a living hell, I removed them from my life (which wasn't easy and some of them still try and 'find' me decades later). I never once imagined or fantasised about killing them.

I think that fantasising about killing someone is a psychological issue that should be addressed, irrespective of whether or not the fantasiser would ever consider acting on those fantasies.

As I recall, the manifesto seemed to be mostly about playing video games, buying stuff, and obsessing over girls not liking him.

He was a loser for his hatred of women, his contempt for racial minorities and interracial couples (even though his mother was Malaysian and his father British), for making plans for the killing spree and for carrying out those plans, and for blaming others for his actions before killing himself.

He imagined that if he was in charge, he would quarantine all women in concentration camps, where the vast majority of the female population will be deliberately starved to death, just so that he could watch them die.

His manifesto reads like the rants of every loser I've known - men who couldn't get a date, yet who believed that they were more attractive than anyone else, and who blamed all women everywhere for not seeing how beautiful they thought themselves to be.

Instead of facing the fact that it takes more to be attractive than having a pretty-boy face and a fancy car, he chose to prove how really ugly he really was by planning and carrying out multiple murders. Then he proved his own self-hatred by becoming his own murderer.

The fact that he blamed others for the actions he chose to perform shows how much of a loser he really was - the quintessential kind.

The guy was a murderer, pure and simple.

Whether he was Aspie, autistic, or psychopathic is irrelevant.

We must learn lessons from this, but we must not glorify this by justifying, in any way, what he did.