Many of you reading this humble missive of mine is familiar with the blogger Roissy. About a year or so ago, he wrote a blog post that ignited a firestorm of controversey accross the Internet. The topic? One Mr. George Sodini, and his truly tragic, monstrous life. Roissy made the case then, that for Men, not having the company of a Woman was a fate worse than death, and though I have had many areas of real contention with the Crimson Gamesman, on this point I must agree:
When men kill women, the underlying reason is almost always an unfulfilled psychosexual need. This goes for spree shooters, rapists, and serial killers. I’m not surprised Sodini hadn’t had sex in nearly 20 years. As I’ve written before, to some men on the losing side of the desireability bell curve celibacy is walking death and anything is justified in avoiding that miserable fate.
Well, as it turns out, evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawaa has confirmed the same sentiment, in his most recent article, “Why the Death Penalty and the DNA Technology Do Not Deter Murderers and Rapists“. Unlike so many posers in the Manosphere, who cherrypick evo-psych info when and where it suits them, I actually enjoy considering ALL of what it has to say on all manner of questions of the human condition. Here, Kanazawaa makes it clear that we will never be able to deter Men from killing and raping, because of deeply entrenched biological hardwiring that goes directly to our need to reproduce. For those Men who have the least to offer a society, killing and raping are legitimate ways to ensure their genetic legacy, or at the very least, making sure that others around them don’t get to reproduce either. It’s a powerful article, and I invite everyone to check it out.
Once again I cannot help but observe the kismit in play here, given the events of the past week or so. At this juncture, I’m pretty much talked out about the matter. I’ll leave it to my esteemed readers to come to their own conclusions.
Feel free to discuss!
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