
Culturally speaking, it’s interesting to note that a young boy pretending to shoot someone is expected, and surprising in a girl.
I was listening to a Radiolab “The Bad Show” in which they mentioned that in a study, the vast majority of people said there was someone they would definitely murder if they could get away with it. There was a notable difference between the sexes though: 91% of men, and 84% of women. In practice though, the statistics are even more disparaged: Men are 10 times more likely to kill than women.
In a different episode, “Killer empathy”, a scientist makes the statement about murder, “to say that it’s somehow unnatural, or inhuman, when in fact, in a weird kind of way it’s profoundly human.” It was interesting to analyze it on a natural/unnatural scale, as opposed to the typical moral/amoral standpoint. They’re tangent, but still different.
Anyways, stuff I’m thinking about these days
(Source: quintessentialnostalgia, via andarossi)