Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Analyzing Evil: Francis Dolarhyde From Red Dragon" video.

The thing is though, it is hard to imagine for a sane person the kind of destructive and compelling influence an insane mind may exert on someone afflicted. I don't think Francis was "merely" traumatized, since most traumatized people pull themselves up from it into normalcy again. His issue with Schizophrenia ran deeper and controlled him. How can one demand morals and ethics out of a person who is born to be unable to exhibit these abilities? It's like demanding a person born without legs to walk or run. That's not a defense of Francis' actions, and ultimately the world is a safer place with Francis being dead. He probably had to die, or at the very least be locked away from society forever. But at the same time, I think it's more fair to say that his condition was terrible rather than he being terrible. Had he been born without his mental deformity, things might've turned out differently. I think true evil comes more from those who are certainly born with the capacity and ability to lead good lives, but choose evil just to satiate some perverse urges or desires.
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@CAMSLAYER13 You're wrong. Sexual hormones does not create a sexual compulsion, they cause sexual arousal. Arousal and compulsion are not the same thing, because they operate on completely different principles. Arousal and desire operate on the principle that you will experience a hormonal reward for doing something (it feels good). Compulsions on the other hand operate primarily on the principle of punishment (you feel pain or discomfort) if you don't engage in certain behaviours. You don't breathe because it "feels good". You breathe becuse if you tried to stop breathing, it would be uncomfortable and even painful the more depletdd your oxygen reserves get. Sexual intercourse however is not something you engage in because you feel pain or discomfort if you refrain from it. You engage in it because it feels good. And that's the ONLY reason. Your lizard brain doesn't comprehend that sexual intercourse will result in procreation. In fact most sex humans engage in does not result in pregnancies at all (only a tiny minority of sessions actually cause conception because the arousal and the sex has to match almost perfectly with the female's ovulation or no conception will take place).
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@celladoor_uk There is a difference between an urge and being compelled. Urge or desire implies that the individual would derive pleasure from the act. But if a psychological illness is COMPELLING you to do something, it's a different situation. Because the compulsion is not about pleasure, but about avoiding pain or misery. When you look at Francis and his issues, it's pretty clear that a lot of it comes from compulsion rather than desire. He's got that dragon/grandmother personality inside of him that constantly screams at him snd threatens to do harm to him unless he does what he's told. Whereas the true evil that I was talking about, is about people who might desire to inflict harm on people for pleasure, but aren't really under compulsion to do them. Like with a child molester for example. Nobody "has to" engage in sexual activities with people they desire. They WANT to, but they don't HAVE TO. Yet the child molester puts his own urges and twisted ideas of pleasure above the well being and safety of his victim.
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@celladoor_uk I don't think they fall into that category, since their sexual urges tend to follow the same patterns as legal sexualities. Most humans desire sex. But the targets of their attraction differs. However, NO HUMAN ON EARTH is compelled to have sex. Sex is not vital to any persons individual survival. It is instrumental for the survival or the species as a group, but on the individual level it is not required for survival. You can survive for about four days without water, but then you die. You are therefore compelled to drink water and restock fluids in your body. You can survive for a couple of weeks without food, but then you die. You are therefore compelled to eat in order to stay alive. You can survive for a few minutes without oxygen, but then you will die. You are therefore compelled to breathe. You can survive for your entire natural life without having sex, and dying ad a result of old age without the lack or sexual intercourse ever threatening your life whatsoever. Therefore, sex is not a compulsion. Sex is something you choose to engage in with the persons of your desire. The child molester is no different in this regard. Yet they choose to engage in it for the sake of their selfish desires, at the cost of the wellbeing of the persons of their desire.
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@CAMSLAYER13 On the genetic level, life is trying to propagate itself, that is true. Hence why I refer to life as a slow and ongoing chemical reaction. But at the same time, if you want to critically analyze lifeforms and behaviour you have to be able to make a distinction between how genes operate and how organisms and their behaviour operate. As humans who study our own biological mechanisms we know that sex is the mechanism of procreation. But on the instinctual level, we don't. Because the part of our brain anatomy that handle instincts do not contain the necessary anatomy of awareness or reasoning. Our instincts are essentially blind to the concept of cause and effect. However our instincts have evolved genetically to manifest in such a way that increase the likelyhood of procreation. For example: if sex didn't include the hormonal rewards that it currently has, then in all likelyhood, humans wouldn't have as much sex as they do and procreation would decrease, possibly leading to extinction. So sexual pleasure is one avenue of evolution that promotes procreation. So, out of the majority of times the individual engage in sex, they're not thinking "i'm going to procreate now". They're thinking "this feels good, so I want it. And i want more of it later". This can also be proven by sexual practices of humans since there's many examples of were a sexual practice couldn't possibly lead to procreation. Like fondling, oral sex, anal sex, homosexual intercourse and so on. So if sex in humans was solely devoted to procreation, then homosexuality wouldn't exist. And heterosexuality would only involve vaginal penetration and nothing else to maximize the chances of conception.
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@CAMSLAYER13 Also there are no "reasons" to be alive, biologically speaking because biology is not designed but evolved. It's essentially a slow chemical process without reason or purpose at all. Reason and purpose are concepts humans invent in their mind when they design something. But it doesn't exist outside of human minds.
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