I'll add my own personal pet peeve to the genre of excuses for flakiness/creativity/doom...having been abused as a child.
HOMG for serious. I was so happy that Dexter didn't go that route.
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Polter-Cow - Mar 24, 2008 1:31:57 pm PDT #4502 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
le nubian - Mar 24, 2008 2:20:02 pm PDT #4503 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Hmm. Didn't Dexter go that route, though?
Dana - Mar 24, 2008 2:24:21 pm PDT #4504 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Please not to spoil Dexter in-thread without whitefont.
le nubian - Mar 24, 2008 2:44:12 pm PDT #4505 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
thanks for the warning. we should take that to premium.
Sean K - Mar 24, 2008 2:50:39 pm PDT #4506 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'll add my own personal pet peeve to the genre of excuses for flakiness/creativity/doom...having been abused as a child.
I'm lookin' at YOU KPAX and all the other, "He's a whacknut serial killer!'
I realize you're talking about using the childhood abuse to allow us to sympathize and forgive the serial killer in question, but there is a distinct correlation between serial killers and childhood abuse.
That is to say, not every abused child becomes a serial killer, but generally speaking, most serial killers were abused as children.
§ ita § - Mar 24, 2008 3:11:01 pm PDT #4507 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
there is a distinct correlation between serial killers and childhood abuse
t ultra-semantic nit Do you mean correlation or causation? t /nit
beekaytee - Mar 24, 2008 4:06:38 pm PDT #4508 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
brenda m - Mar 24, 2008 4:08:47 pm PDT #4509 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I don't know that I much see it used as an *excuse* for serial killers/abusers/etc., outside of Law and Order.
Sean K - Mar 24, 2008 6:05:55 pm PDT #4510 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Do you mean correlation or causation?
I think I mean correlation. Not all people who are abused become serial killers, but most serial killers were abused at some point. That's correlation, right?
DebetEsse - Mar 24, 2008 6:11:00 pm PDT #4511 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Correlation says, "A & B tend to occur together. A may cause B, B may cause A, or C may cause both. I don't know."
Causation says, "A causes B."