Posted on 02/26/2005 5:16:30 PM PST by AntiGuv
The only difference between Berkowitz and BTK is that the latter was stuck in flyover country.
That guy has serial killer written all over his face.
I disagree about "most children" being cruel. I have never in my life pulled the leg off of a spider.
What nonsensical subjectivism..
I didn't say that serial killers outside the Anglo nations are nonexistent, I said that they are far rarer. Pretoria, I might add, is an essentially Anglo culture (I am also including Australia, which has plenty of serial killers you neglected to note).
I was well-aware of Pedro Lopez and was actually going to mention earlier that there seems to be a (widely noted) upswing of the serial killer phenomenon in Latin America in recent years. In fact, there is some debate there whether that is 'home-grown' or an import of U.S. sensibilities (or whatever one might call it).
I counted 58 killers on the Wikipedia list provided earlier. By all means provide the names of 350 Chinese & Indian serial killers, 350 non-Anglo European killers, 200 Latin American killers, 200 African killers, and 150 non-Sino/Indic Asian killers that would demonstrate the comparable rates.
And of course I'm talking about serial killers in the sense that the term is used in America, not in the sense of someone who mass murders in war or cases of terrorism or through some official capacity.
Nah we're not arguing.
That's a relief---because I suck at arguing.
Hmm.. It should probably be more like 100 Latin American and 150 African serial killers (to get comparable rates).
For starters, what's with the "anglo-nation" crap? After explaining that, you can provide data to support your bullshit allegations. This would be helpful.
The guy was not a Christian......obviously.
Im surprised that even some of the sweetest people I know were kinda cruel to living creatures when they were kids.
And hey didn't George W. himself blow up frogs for fun when he was a kid ?
The whole debate started off with a question of why the US and UK appear to have a disproportionate share of serial killers. Here's a newsflash: the US and the UK are Anglo nations and my personal theory was explicitly based on Anglo culture and society.
I already said it is personal conjecture and if you don't like it then that's your problem.
The murder rates in those regions is more than sufficient to offset the lack of 'serials'.
Not to mention that serial killers in Africa, Russia, and Latin America tend to rack up *ten times* the body count of their UK/USA counterparts.
Confirmen? What was confirmen?
You still miss the point. Alas.
More reason to hate clowns!
No kidding? I had no idea that you were so perceptive.
I didn't say anything to imply that the homicide rate in those regions is insufficient to offset the lack of 'serials'..
But we're talking about serials.
And, I'm not talking about body counts either. I am talking about number of killers. They rack up higher body counts because of the deficient law enforcement (and in Russia also because it's so easy to hide bodies in the winter).
Here's a challenge for you. Japan, S. Korea, and Taiwan combined have three times the population of the United Kingdom. They should have 75 serial killers to match Britain's most notorious 25 listed previously. Please go bring me the list to prove a comparable rate.
If you can't, then it's probably because it doesn't exist.
Probably no great loss.
For me, not.
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