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If you read up on serial killers you often find quite a few things in common:
Sexual and/or physical abuse.
Abuse of animals in childhood.
The inability to empathize.
I tend to think that the impulse to kill again and again is more closely associated with fetishistic behavior than addictive behavior. More a compulsion than a need. But I'm certainly not an expert.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
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