Reply #54: I do not torture insects.

[aquart]

You are looking for a unique feature. But this is a completely predictable pathology. There's no specialness here. And I truly doubt any of his words have much relevance. Mass murderers are dull. Hitler was dull. People were impressed by the sheer magnitude and kept looking for something special, but beyond his ability to give a really rousing speech...eh. We have the profile now. Criminologists will go over this ass' life in great detail to see if the profile needs tweaking but I doubt it.

For a while I was enthralled by serial killers but now...bleh.

These killers go for special and end up ordinary in their class.

The historian in me is so much more interested in the survivor testimony. Those accounts, to me, are striking gold.