I've Got A Really Bad Special Interest

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I was always very interested in serial killers, tortures, lethal diseases, macabre, this stuff. Not so long ago my special obsessive interest was Columbine shooting.

Lots of people are interested in serial killers, if they weren't there wouldn't be a true crime section in the bookstore, or so many tv shows about it. It's human nature.
I've always been interested in true crime and was obsessed with Jeffery Dahmer for a time, and a few others. I don't think it's a problem if you don't want to be like them, as the others said. It's our nature to get obsessed with things anyway.
After a while I feel kind of sick when I've been reading and thinking about them too long, so I just take a break. Right now I'm really interested in Zodiac, btw.

right now its lions, not sure why and how it started but it did.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with being obsessed by serial killers. I've found them intriguing all my life and have only dug up half my land for means of evidence disposal.

I'm not interested in serial killers, but Manson is a special case.

I seriously doubt any of us here admire somebody who repeatedly killed people. There is a big difference between being fascinated with serial killers and wanting to be one. My interest, part of a bigger study on crime in general, was perhaps a way to figure out the whys and hows of human beings. Often times, it's the strange cases, the extremes, that teach you the most; and a serial killer is nothing if not extreme. Average people can be malicious, can commit petty crimes, can even be downright cruel... Maybe part of our fascination with serial killers is wondering what would happen if we ourselves didn't rein in those tendencies, if we didn't have the good to balance out the bad. It's like stepping to the edge of a cliff and looking down, knowing just how easy it would be to step off the edge, and at the same time knowing you'd never do it... After all, it isn't so very hard to kill a human being; it's just our free will keeping us from doing it. Maybe that's part of it, too--the marvel of being able to choose.

I was also fascinated with the Holocaust--especially with the people who managed to smuggle Jews and other vulnerable folks out of the country, or else hid them; or the people who helped each other in concentration camps, despite it being dangerous to do so... I suppose that's the other end of the human spectrum, morally. Also, there's something decidedly attractive about tricking a huge, powerful war machine of a country to keep a few people alive. It took half the world to defeat Germany; and yet there were a few groups of people who somehow managed to resist the whole thing all by themselves.

Heh. Not a bad interest. Not an unusual one in the slightest, either. I don't really see any reason not to talk about it, actually, so long as you ask people if they care before you start rabbitting on about it. You'll probably seem wanky and threatening if they're not interested. Most people are really frickin' morbid anyway, though, you'd be suprised at who is interested in serial killers once they get over the idea that they must pretend not to be. People are keen on gruesome.

For over a hundred years The Newgate Calendar was second to the Bible as the book most likely to be found in English-speaking homes. If Sawney Bean was a real person at all and the story as true as people believed it was, Charlie Manson's got nothing on him. That Sweeney Todd character was enormously popular in the 1840's and the story published in twenty or so installments in something called The People's Periodical and Family Library as The String of Pearls: A Romance. The musical (and film with Johnny Depp) is a watered down version, having supplied Todd with a desire for vengance, a better reason for killing people and making them into pies than fun and profit. Hell, James Fenimore Cooper's books are so gruesome that if I wrote them today and suggested that they were appropriate for twelve-year-old boys I would be torn to peices by enraged soccer-moms. Though kids are still allowed to read The Last of the Mohicans if they can slog through it, regardless of Mark Twain's vitriolic complaints about Cooper's 'literary offenses.'

That's not normal , you should pick a better idol. You must stop this obsession or you'll become your own obsession.

I have...I guess taboo interstss which for some would probably be considered bad. But I think it's normal for many ppl to have them. Some just choose not to talk about it.

A few of mine include serial killers (I guess I'm trying to figure them out since it's just not normal to go around killing ppl), The Holocost...it's hard believe how many of those ppl were killed yet I obsess over reading what survivers went through, Autopsy (I use to love to watch that show on HBO, whatever happened to it?), occults, bad leaders, I use to go to Rotten.com but had enough..yet once in a while curiousity seeks me~

There are others as well but they wouldn't be suited here. Anyway I tend to think those who aren't intersted are a bit strange since it's normal to watch or read something you just couldn't comprehend.

When it comes to torturing though, that's when I shut it off. It's just too much for me to handle.

Without people being interested in them(serial killers) who would study their habits and origins , so that they could be better caught or prevented. i have an interest in the solving of crimes and I certainly don't admire the people committing crimes ( I have quite a strong disgust and hatred for them) or murders especially, but I do have a very keen interest in and admiration for the detectives that can solve things and the science they use. I am very fascinated in the solution of crimes and the capture of the ones who commit them i don't think I would ever consider myself likely to harm anyone or become a killer myself though.

If you obsess over Charls Manson long enough and with sufficient intensity, you [b]become/b] Charles Manson. Any inordinate obssesion with the occult, sustained long enough, ends with the person being ridden by demons and/or going insane.

Achtung!