Reply #140: If a child is beaten enough, he might become famous...

[nikto]

Famous like Ted Bundy, or even...



"Hitler's Cruelty Comes from the brutal beatings from his father during his Childhood
In Hitler's childhood, there were many beatings from his father, Alois Hitler. Waite stresses that these are important to the formation of Hitler's character:

How can one calculate the consequences of child beating? What psychological wounds scar the child's mind as he lies hurt in body and soul, sobbing and alone, battered by his own father and deserted by a noninterfering mother? The infant must learn to comfort himself; he can trust no one else; he is overwhelmed by terror, fear, rage, helplessness, hatred. Is it not possible that the hatred which Hitler later said was so important to his life was learned in childhood's rage - the helpless hatred that sobbed: 'If I were bigger, I would kill you'. Of such experiences, a prominent psychiatrist has said, are murderers made. Hitler would have agreed completely with American criminal Caryl Chessman, who recalled the brutal whippings of his childhood and concluded that 'there is nothing that sustains you like hate; it is better to be anything than to be afraid'. (p.137)"

http://www.hsse.nie.edu.sg/staff/blackburn/waitepsychopathicgod1.htm