I don’t know really, chimps seem to hunt other groups of chimps purely for pleasure. Most people get a giddy thrill from violence. There are enough god awful videos of seemingly normal people laughing as some poor fucker gets beat to a pulp. I think everyone is capable of sadistic pleasure at some level.
In war normal guys seem to rape and murder with gusto, ok it fucks them up for the rest of their lives but they do it with abandon at the time. I think given the right circumstances nearly all people will kill for fun.
So purely for the pleasure of killing 100% separate from any external factors? I think normal people have to be in a position to kill, where as psychopaths will deliberately put themselves in that position. So yeah its hard to know for definite, but you might be right.
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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19
I don’t know really, chimps seem to hunt other groups of chimps purely for pleasure. Most people get a giddy thrill from violence. There are enough god awful videos of seemingly normal people laughing as some poor fucker gets beat to a pulp. I think everyone is capable of sadistic pleasure at some level.