[UA] Deaths and psychology

[Russell Rayburn]

On 4/19/07, Rev Kev <kelmore at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> You can be struck by a car at any moment.  You could be hit by a piece of
> blue ice falling from an airplane at any moment.  You could touch the wrong
> wire at any moment.  Those eventualities are scary, yes.  But, the serial
> killer fascinates people, because you could be shot by one at any moment,
> and it isn't just sheer happenstance (except that it was bad luck it was
> *you*).  The death was a conscious effort by one person.
>

Interesting thoughts, but that leads to the other side of the coin.
Serial killers who get marriage proposals while in prison, for
instance.

Or freaks like the VT shooter.  The killer, rather than an object of
fear, but as a symbol of personal empowerment.

Just more anecdotal evidence that humans aren't rational, I suppose.

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