Nihilistic Murderer

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What strikes me more about this guy than his obvious absence of any real motif to kill, is how normal his life had been up to that point.

Yeah, I guess maybe that's it. I mean what sort of 40 year old who seems so sane and normal just decides suddenly to kill a couple of random people for no real reason? It makes you feel very unsafe.

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The guy at about 35:00 described it perfectly: The rational part of his brain that would kick in and prevent you from killing someone in a moment of anger is missing in him. His brain has faulty wiring. We all get angry but with him, there isn't anything to rein it in. There is a feedback loop that is missing.

I'm not really sure that that is it though. I mean as far as we know that's the first time he killed someone, if that were really the case I think you'd see a long history of violent crime from him, instead he has a minor history of drug smuggling. I have a different theory that I was discussing with my girlfriend as we watched this (she tends towards being a nihilist herself) which is the feeling of flatness. I think that this guy probably feels flat or even bored most of the time. That's probably why he had to ride motorcycles dangerously, travel full time and live an exciting life. Eventually that wasn't doing it for him anymore and the only real way to feel alive was to start killing people.