Target Selection By Psychopathic Criminals: Understanding Delusion Of A Twisted Mind.
By: Samantha Clarke
Tags: Personality, Criminal Justice, True Crime, Mental Health, Psychology

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Now, It’s Not Uncommon For People To “Use” Or “Take Advantage” Of Others — But For Psychopaths, They Take More Than Just The Cake, They Take Lives.

It’s true that anyone can become a crime victim. But methodical, cold, calculated killers who covet and plot to destroy humans for gain or pleasure do not go around sporadically or aimlessly committing acts of violence without discretion.

No, for psychopathic serial criminals…they select, plan, obsess, act out, then cool down. Then after a while, they go do it again.

Abusers pick victims who’ve already been traumatized not only to more easily prey on and destroy them, but to clear any conscience or shame they’ve left in who they’re ruining, thinking it’s more acceptable to treat them like low-level disposable garbage, which is how they see them.

This concept is similar in how serial rapists and killers show some kind of “twisted mercy” on their victims, with statements justifying their vile cruelty …such as while raping a woman: “In that moment, I could have bashed her head in — but I’m a good guy, so decided not to do that.”

As an example in terms of smaller scale criminality demonstrating this logic:

I called the psychopath I knew personally one day — he was drunk or high or both, and the random child who was now suddenly living in his house, picked up the phone, while he himself seemed dazed and unresponsive.

Later I told him what he was doing wasn’t at all right, that he was undoubtedly abusing this child…and what was his response? “It’s okay, this kid is already fucked up,” as if his abuse of this child was made acceptable — that there was nothing apparently wrong to choose to further traumatize abuse victims who’ve already been traumatized.

In fact, he stated on several occasions that he was “taking care” of this child, that he wanted to “save them, and be a hero.” So he thought he was somehow doing these people a favor by further exposing them to violence — it’s a contradiction of logic that psychopaths act out on.

Psychopathic criminals are delusional: they act deliberately, but motivations are fueled by hypocritical beliefs — eventually the mind dissociates and has no choice but to compartmentalize…to avoid contradiction of self. This is how they often end up with at least two separate lives.

This is delusion of psychopathic, antisocial criminals who’re repeatedly violent: they do things to clear their own shame, seeing themselves as not only justified in their cruelty, merely “taking what was owed,” but they’re some kind of “hero” for how nice they were while doing so.

Pretty messed up, but it’s true — if you don’t believe it, just talk to one for years or read things they’ve said: they’ll subtly or even directly tell you what they’ve done. It’s just so bizarre in cruelty you’ll think it’s just a joke: which is exactly what they want and why they pass under the radar undetected for so long. This technique is called a “liar’s paradox.”

It’s also why serial rapists and killers often target prostituted women as prey: it’s not just easy access or knowing they likely won’t get caught — they think they’re justified to hurt them because “they deserve it” as they’re already “dirty whores” and by killing they “did them a favor.”

It’s absolutely sick delusional logic of a warped mind that’s repeatedly rationalized violence, lacking morality to the point they don’t even see rape or murder as wrong, but as right — they see it as “corrective action” or “saving people.” As serial rapist and killer Carl Panzram said: