Post by roberson on Mar 28, 2018 18:53:34 GMT
I have no horse in this race. Everyone seems to have differing opinions. Some think the studies do not apply to EARONS because he was never caught and thus must be a different beast from those that were caught and included in the study. Some think he was so intelligent, none of the usual definitions and characteristics apply to him. Some think he was more like Rader and Ridgway. Both of those men possessed a normal life, which they "presented to the world". On the other hand, it's hard to just sweep the study's statistics under the rug and say that none of those traits apply to EARONS because, again, he was never caught, which therefore makes him special.
People say he dropped out of school and thus must have been unintelligent, yet plenty of people with high IQs did not finish high school. Numerous "geniuses" were self-educated or didn't finish college. Some say he had a job because he didn't steal much, which is hard to argue, but having a job doesn't mean he wasn't a ghost or that he had friends and girlfriends, or that people would ever even remember his employment, especially in jobs with large workforces and/or high turnover rates. If he went from job to job, he'd recall no one and no one would recall him unless he gave them reason to do so. Not everyone works at the same job with the same people for decades, and projecting your life and its experiences onto the lives of absolute strangers is never a good bet.
The fact is, none of us know anything about the perpetrator because he hasn't been caught, which is why I tend to avoid these arguments. Unless he's caught, there's no way to know. He may have had a family and lived a normal life for decades as a "pillar of the community", perhaps, or he may have died homeless in San Diego. He may fit the above cited stats perfectly, or he may be an outlier, an "edge case" among edge cases, if you will.
As far as I am concerned, these and similar arguments are pointless, and no new truths are ever discovered within them.
In any case, while reading about sexual sadism disorder on Wikipedia, I encountered this paragraph:
For whatever it is worth.
People say he dropped out of school and thus must have been unintelligent, yet plenty of people with high IQs did not finish high school. Numerous "geniuses" were self-educated or didn't finish college. Some say he had a job because he didn't steal much, which is hard to argue, but having a job doesn't mean he wasn't a ghost or that he had friends and girlfriends, or that people would ever even remember his employment, especially in jobs with large workforces and/or high turnover rates. If he went from job to job, he'd recall no one and no one would recall him unless he gave them reason to do so. Not everyone works at the same job with the same people for decades, and projecting your life and its experiences onto the lives of absolute strangers is never a good bet.
The fact is, none of us know anything about the perpetrator because he hasn't been caught, which is why I tend to avoid these arguments. Unless he's caught, there's no way to know. He may have had a family and lived a normal life for decades as a "pillar of the community", perhaps, or he may have died homeless in San Diego. He may fit the above cited stats perfectly, or he may be an outlier, an "edge case" among edge cases, if you will.
As far as I am concerned, these and similar arguments are pointless, and no new truths are ever discovered within them.
In any case, while reading about sexual sadism disorder on Wikipedia, I encountered this paragraph:
Paraphilic coercive disorder refers to the preference for non-consenting over consenting sexual partners.[4] It differs from sexual sadism disorder in that although the individual with this disorder may inflict pain or threats of pain in order to gain the compliance of the victim, the infliction of pain is not the actual goal of the individual. The condition is typically described as a paraphilia and continues to undergo research, but does not appear in the current DSM or ICD. Alternate terms for the condition have included Biastophilia,[5] Coercive Paraphilic Disorder,[6] and Preferential Rape.[7]