Why do you think people kill?

Scratch an itch.

There are sociopaths who kill remorselessly. They do it because the other option is less convieiant, or because they get off on it.
But I think most killers do it out of fear. They are afraid of the threat someone represents, whether it’s a rival gang member, a partisan millitant, or a domestic issue that ends in murder. I think this is the case in most murder.
Remember Yoda: “Fear leads to hate, hate to anger”, etc.

Some do it for the money, some do it out of some sick sense of nationalism, some do it because they have deluded themselves into thinking they are protecting “freedom”.
But most of them are just sick fucks who like to murder people and have found a legal outlet for their twisted urges.

Population control….

The common element is that most killers value themselves above all others. Many would kill to get what they need to survive, like the money in your wallet. Most would kill to protect themselves and their loved ones. Some would kill out of a sense of superiority; their victims are inferior and don’t deserve to live. It’s only the truly depraved that would kill for fun.

Charles Manson is known around the world as being a serial killer, yet he didnt actually kill anyone.

Just so you know, psychopath and sociopath means the same thing – sociopath is the outdated term. These people do not experience emotions like other people. They don’t feel love, remorse, or regret. It’s easy to kill if you truly don’t give a shit. What makes a psychopath a psychopath? No one knows. Nature vs. nurture as usual.

Not only psychopaths kill. Only 1–2% of prisoners are psychopaths. Over half have antisocial personality disorder, but these are two separate disorders.

So, why do other people kill? Money (life insurance, for example), love/jealousy, power/control, mental illness, heat of passion, hatred, self-defense, neglect…

There are so many reasons and there’s no one right answer. I’m currently taking a criminal justice course called Analyzing Homicide. People who kill their intimate partners, parents that kill their kids, kids that kill their parents, confrontational homicide, serial killers, etc. There isn’t always a motive but, when there is one, it varies from perpetrator to perpetrator.

Psychopaths are disconnected from physical reality. There are voices that tell them to do things, the believe the governtment is spying on them via sandwich meat, etc.
Sociopaths are disconnected from social norms and mores. They have no shame about lying, cheating, deceiving others, or even killing as long as they can get away with it. But they have no problem with reality like hearing voices, etc.
Either can kill, but psychopaths are more amenable to treatment with medications, convulsive therapy, whereas sociopaths are not. They have Axis II disorders that respond minimally if at all to any type of intervention.

Et Tu, Wikipedia?
Looks like I’m wrong. Drat. I’ve been going on like this for years…

I always confused Ted Bundy with Al Bundy Ed ‘O’Neal what have you done, now Married with Children will be canceled.

Sometimes the Clantons just insist on calling down the thunder.

I mentally murder people….

^^This is true! I’m mentally daid.

I feel there are several different factors as to why someone would kill somebody. I heard a quote that states that “Everybody can be in a position to want to kill someone, under their own circumstances” and I truly do believe that, most will not engage in the practical but the would in theory think about it based on the fight or flight response.