From Hidden Desires to Extreme Evil

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Many people, especially women, may dislike men after watching the film. It is understandable that sex and competition go hand in hand. The implicit meaning of survival is reproduction. As a man, I hate this instinctive impulse. , but at the same time rely on the social label and natural ontology as a person at the source of this impulse. The simple explanation is "original sin".

Many people always regard "original sin" as a religious concept. Of course, from a natural point of view, it is impossible for human beings to have original sin, because before you deny the rationality of killing, killing already exists, and before you deny the rationality of the existence of violence, Nations are mostly built through wars and political struggles. So no matter how beautifully you dress violence, with a reasonable explanation, it is inherently antisocial. Violence stems from competition, but competition is natural. No matter how you deny it, it must exist in the human body. Unless one day the spirit can be separated from the body, can the spirit still constitute the spirit without the stimulation of the body? In fact, no one can tell.

Some people think that art is a talent and worship artists, but the difference between art and science is that a painting may be a masterpiece in your eyes, partly because you have the so-called "artistic cells" that can understand the artist's display, and the other It may be a simple echo of "social correctness". I think most people are like that. The proof is that the same painting, if you show it to another animal, may have a different eye structure than yours, it will not produce any aesthetic feeling. But monkeys, like humans, cannot escape gravity and the laws of material existence.

What this actually means is a perspective, that is, after human beings enter the scientific society, can the contradictions and conflicts of human thoughts be able to achieve the balance of needs under the existing social conditions? And Ted Bundy is precisely unable to find this balance. Man, his emotional part and rational part have reached the top at the same time, and neither of these two aspects can check and balance each other, so they parted ways. In the middle, he tried his best to show that he was a good person and a qualified social person. Understand the mistakes of extreme selfishness, but can't control the selfish self. It is very likely that his native environment did not restrict him or that his nature was extremely suppressed, causing him to become psychopathic and split.

I feel that the title of this film is too hypocritical. This kind of person is not an independent exception. In a high-pressure society or family environment, this kind of person is not an exception. It's just that most people's "crimes" do not reach the point of "killing people and stealing goods". For example, Ted Bundy scored 10 points. Those who scored 3 points and 4 points felt that they were completely different from him. Those who scored 7 points and 8 points were "I am in the normal category", of course In front of many people with high moral standards, there is no difference between one point and ten, and it is equally vile. It is not that someone accidentally stepped on your foot. You think that it is justice to give an eye for a tooth. Your behavior is not the same as Ted Bundy's murder and murder The qualitative difference is only the quantitative difference. Ted Bundy's behavior is not unreasonable among humans in the hunting age. It is normal for one tribe to invade another tribe, burn and kill. But this is a civilized society with laws, and regulation is not the shackles that others put on you, but the shackles that you put on yourself! !

Whether you admit it or not, the unit of all human behavior is desire. The more the desire is suppressed, the stronger it is. When this intensity brings people's spirits to the verge of collapse, the intensity of this desire will also exceed the level of "civilization". "standard, then in the social environment, it will be firmly covered in people's hearts, and one day it will be uncontrollable, and anti-social behavior will occur. And a cowardly person will stick to his "absolutely never done bottom line" after his crimes are exposed, because crossing this bottom line will either result in death or collapse! !

The simplest example is that no one does not know that tobacco and alcohol are harmful to the body, but can this society ban tobacco and alcohol? If you can't ban alcohol and tobacco, how can you ban alcoholism?

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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile quotes

  • Ted Bundy: People don't realize that murderers do not come out in the dark with long teeth and saliva dripping off their chin. People don't realize that there are killers among them. People they liked, loved, lived with, work with and admired could the next day turn out to be the most demonic people imaginable

  • Title Card: Few people have the imagination for reality. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832