Comments by "Alphabet Inc." (@official_alphabet_inc) on "Interview with a Severely Disturbed Killer 17 Years Later" video.

  1. This is very human tbh. Of course, the more narcissistic one is, the more perfect one sees themselves, and thus, the more blame one shifts outwards. In the end, though, we're all regular victims to confirmation bias.. and when all you got is time to ruminate on why you ended up in a sticky situation, it's hard not to find any external reasons for one's fk ups. So, in his example: I presume it's extremely rare to view oneself throughout life as an "evil" person, or someone destined to become a murderer. That's why he's searching for external reasons, e.g. 1) "I was obsessed with Columbine", 2) "my new friend was obsessed with violent movies, and he introduced me to them" -> "both of which made me more violent than I really was". Besides, 3) "he put the idea out there by asking me if I was down to kill someone -> which created and actual opportunity instead of being just fantasy". In that way, he proves to himself that he's not evil. Rather, these external reasons are to blame. And since there is some slight semblance of logic behind these thoughts, every time he thinks about these things, he solidifies them down more and more. If he instead talked with the correct therapist/psychologist, or perhaps an intelligent friend, he might realise that there's some serious childhood trauma that created the basis for him to kill someone in this matter. Perhaps he has had some inner conflict since 10 about being "abandoned" as a baby - maybe without being fully aware of it. Coupled with have little to no social network, which strengthens the feelings of abandonment and aloneness. Which, on top of that, gave him lots of free time to nerd out on perhaps not-so-healthy subjects like school shooters and shit. To be honest... From seeing the vids he and Torey created, and from his interrogation, I was kinda surprised Brian said shit like "I won't put all the blame on Torey, but...". I'd expect him to cry and shout about this being completely everyone else's fault - Torey, his parent, and everyone at school. Perhaps even Cassie herself.
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  2. Yeah, cause none of us normies ever minimise our own bad/stupid actions. Seriously, think back to the last time you did exactly that. Perhaps you were in a discussion, and suddenly you're talking over everyone else, borderline shouting. And when confronted, you go "Well.. what you said was really provoking" or some dumb shit like that, instead of just saying "yeah, sorry". Or perhaps a different time you made a fool of yourself, and latched on to some lame excuse instead of just admitting immediately that you fked up. Now.. Imagine you do the ultimate oopsie and fkin murder another human or four. And now your stuck in a prison cell, under-stimulated, struggling not to think about all of this again and again and again and again... Is it really that weird for him to cling on to some lame excuses? Sadly, this is perfectly normal. He's obviously not getting proper help for him to discover where it all went wrong, why he's so messed up, and recognizing how he can move down a better path in life. PS: Before you start bitching, I'm obviously not saying he's perfectly normal, or defending him in general. I'm just saying that this behaviour you're talking about is perfectly normal. Neither am I saying that suggesting a reason or two for one's bad actions should fully exonerate them from any consequences.
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  3.  @ArthurB26  "Can"? It's the reason. It's sad when someone uses their experiences and past environment as a PERMANENT excuse for themselves. It's perfectly fine for someone to "excuse" (or perhaps in better words; explain) their e.g. overly-aggressive reaction, with them growing up in an environment where extreme aggression was the only logical coping mechanism to succeed. But now, they've either realised this themselves, or someone else has pointed it out for them, and they've accepted it. Perfect! That's step 1. This is where the slow and hard process of changing one's habits starts. Of course, a realisation like that doesn't exonerate someone who's committed murder, but perhaps we can look past our elevated pulse because they started shouting in a discussion :D
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  4. Also, on the narcissism-comments: it's interesting that Brian only read chunks of "The Guilty Innocent" by Torey's mother. Kinda weird that a narcissist wouldn't read a book about the most important event of his life and, in part, about him, from cover to cover. 37:08
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  5.  @TheAngieIshmael  God is gay
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  6. You know someone has to be between 2 and 20ish when they don't recognize 16 year olds as kids.
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  7. As per usual, I have a lot of small pieces of critique towards the script here and there, but in this one, you provided a real banger of insight: Brian is (at least partly) blaming Torey for what happened, but he forgets to consider the alternative. If he acted alone, or if it was more up to him, he'd probably do something more akin to Columbine.. which would be so much more worse (in a strictly utilitarian perspective ofc). Thus, it's entirely possible that Torey's influence actually saved several people's lives, and saved Brian for spending more time in prison, and having more victims on his conscience. Btw to everyone who's critiquing what Brian says. While your critiques might all be perfectly valid, you have to also consider his current circumstances: He's in a situation where he's on a daily basis forced to think about his actions and his life due to lack of stimuli. He ruminates on the same kind of questions we have, like "why did I/he do this?", "where did it all go wrong?". etc He also probably doesn't have a lot of proper avenues for discussing these thoughts with other people on a regular basis. Thus, because of how our brains are made up, because of confirmation bias, it's only natural for Brian's thought patterns and opinions to turn out like this. Hearing him in this interview is the first time he appeared like a regular human to me. Of course, Brian isn't (or at the very least "wasn't") mentally "all there". Some screws are a bit (or ehm.. a lot) looser than the average human being, cause if not, he wouldn't be able to do what he did, in the manner he did. That said, I promise you, whoever it is that's currently reading this: you would most likely have thought and said the same shit as Brian did in this interview if you somehow ended up in a similar situation to him. Whatever.. RIP Cassie <3
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  8. He's in prison. What else is he supposed to think about?
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  9.  @islanders1329fan  How's Torey "better"? I have no opinion on this, so I'm genuinely just curious - not challenging you in any way.
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  10.  @newyardleysinclair9960  Grandma's knitting me a testicle pouch as we speak
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  11.  @DistortedEmpath  Ditto
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  12.  @upsidedownnugget9531  You might understand it more with age, if you're interested in the topic. Presuming your prettttty young since you're talkin' bout "doing sex" and whatnot...
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  13.  @upsidedownnugget9531  It's possible to understand [fked up] people and their [fked up] actions without actually being them or in their shoes, at least to a certain degree. I can understand why people buy left-handed scissors, despite the fact that I've always used right-handed. Y'know.. They might be left handed? But you often need some relevant experiences and knowledge to be able to do that, hence why I said you might be able to understand it as you get older, and if your interested in the topic (cause then you'd gain more knowledge). If you didn't know left-handedness was a thing, you might think the left-handed scissors were due to a production error, and the guy who bought them did so mistakenly. But to answer your main question: no, I've never thought about killing anyone.
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  14.  @upsidedownnugget9531  It's funny that you deleted your response. Especially cause I'd have NO clue what to answer to just "yes the crazy people"
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