Ladies and Gentlemen of the world. I’d like you to meet Mr Plum…(full name not given).
Mr Plum… is currently in jail in the U.S. on a variety of charges.
It seems that he confessed to police that he’d killed a little nine year old girl who’d been staying with him over the Xmas weekend by bashing her head in with a brick.
Then he cut her up with a hacksaw, and disposed of most of her body in a nearby dumpster.
Other body parts were later discovered in his refrigerator.
Now Mr Plum… is one of us. He is a human being like us. You say, “He’s no human being, he’s a monster, a sadistic animal…” The fact is that, biologically, he is a human, probably one that was once a lovely baby.
The important question for thinkers is: How did he get from being a lovable baby to to killer? This is where it gets tricky. As you know, we all inherit things, genetic things. And, we all learn things along the way, things that combine with our genetic things. Science can’t disentangle the two influences, can’t prove which is the stronger.
And given the existence of Mr Plum…, it seems reasonable to ask how many Mr or Mrs Plum…s are there who are killing people but the police can’t catch them. Did you know there are millions of missing people in the world, people who vanish without a trace?
And our Mr Plum…, what if he’d got into a position of real power, a position where he could declare World War Three, or if he’d got to be part of a committee that was trying to decide whether or not to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran, or if he was running the CIA, or if he was a bishop or was running a Children’s Home…
The sooner we humans get rid of our genetic flaws the better, I reckon. Then we just have to concentrate on improving the appalling learning influences which surround us. This, in itself, is a mammoth task.
Shamefully there are many Mr Plum’s in our World. I don’t know the answer to how we can weed them out before they act and when we do find out which of us are sadistic bastards, it is too late because someone, like this poor nine year old, are dead. I don’t know the answer or the reason why some of us turn out like we do.
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Mr Plumb is example of mental health system failure, a lack of caring on grand scale. Are not the lies being told to the Japanese people and the world regarding ongoing Fukashima polluting our world also example of how twisted some primates can be?
http://fairewinds.com/content/arnold-gundersen-fresh-report-fukushima
I think Borg plus pro deluxe mods are inevitable. In the hands of current leadership though, don’t need be the sharpest knife in the draw to know how that will go.
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These type of people hide and we need to learn how to see shighns without using discrimination.Some people seem odd but are good loveing citizens.Others seem as normal as everyone we see daily and are the real sickos,so its hard to no even for proffesional profillers.
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Genetic isn’t the whole story either. Not helping is the monkey see monkey do trickle down effect our anti-truth leadership teach us all to emulate doesn’t help create a fair baseline of acceptable behavior.
We also know social environment, latent systemic oppression, parenting all contribute to how we think and behave. Neither faith nor sociopath need be involved in creating a nasty piece of work. Like dominoes through the generations for self denial is the tool to watch out for.
A short video as food for thought if not seen it already.
Method Actor – http://vimeo.com/19966855
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Yeah,David,he’s human,and all humans are capable of ANYTHING,but most of us CHOOSE not to do these things. We are not all monsters.
But isn’t it strange that we allow ourselves to be ‘ruled’ by criminal psychopaths who give rein to the conditions that give rise to the kind of wacko in your article.
Because of the world we live in,I don’t give a flying fuck about the wacko…I feel for the little girl who died in screaming agony.
Extrapolate this out to the criminal & massive weaponry that is deployed daily,worldwide,and give a thought to those who are horribly maimed,or die in screaming agony ALL the time.
We can also CHOOSE not to allow this to continue.
We have free will. We need to exercise it,and help excise the psycho behaviour,of every kind,from our world.
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Jamie has it right, it is almost impossible to spot these sicko’s in our society without discriminating. Without knowing the story behind it, his behaviour could be blamed on anything. Was he a heavy drug user or an alcoholic or maybe he had a history of violence or he had a mental disorder. We can’t just use a broad brush and say it was because he was psychotic, we have to look at the reasons behind it and work out why he did what he did and use that to try and treat and prevent others doing the same thing.
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Lucy, yours is a voice of reason. It takes caring and investigation to find out what factors create a human monster. There is tremendous judgement rather than diagnosis that goes on. Too much is understood now. Like even addiction is a brain disorder. Apparent in brain scans. I feel most for the victim that innocent girl and this Plum should be locked away for life. How to catch a Plum before he becomes the monster is possible, I believe. The assessment tests that are available are remarkably pinpointed and accurate to where the problems lie. It is in resources available and the social will. Just like a bacteria doesn’t respect social boundaries. These other forms of sickness affect individuals and society at large. Once the behaviour is diagnosed properly, choices – informed – can be made. Like surgeries or medications combined with re education to help properly socialize and teach that person how to control their weak points. Eck what a horrible example though in this Plum!
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There seems to be general agreement that there are many Mr Plums in our world. There is also some agreement that humans are capable of horrendous acts like rape and incest and may even think about them on occasion but, fortunately, we ‘choose’ to be law abiding perhaps fearing being caught and punished.
But it does create a feeling of uneasiness when you’re in a crowd or walking home on a dark night, doesn’t it. Grace may be right that these monsters can be identified. But what do we do then? Of course, we release ‘monsters’ into mainstream society quite often, don’t we?
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Genetic Engineering is not new and has it equal in Eugenics. Am I missing something here?
The final straw in Big Brother control.
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These folks are not found only among trailer trash. As mentioned earlier they are found among politicians, attorneys, military generals, troops, even doctors, engineers, and teachers, and of course especially among theologians. They are experts at deception. One clue is that they seek positions of trust and people do trust them, at their own peril.
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We’ve got a government full of Mr. Plums. Only they do things on a massive scale. Especially when it comes to screwing things up. Something can exist for years, but the instant the government gets involved, that existence is over. When it comes to industrialized murder, they do okay. They’ve even come up with the formula for how many gallons of fuel oil can be rendered from a 175lb. man, using thermo-depolimerization. Why, and how do they know this?
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Rhubarb, eugenics is a word used to frighten people. Genetic engineering to help humans to avoid physical and behavioral flaws is a good news story!
Steve, I agree. Mr Plum looks a bit like he is but many of the worst ones look very ordinary and innocent.
Joe, great to hear from you again. Regarding the fuel oil per human, it does seem a waste to cremate them when you could make a quid out of humoil! Now you’ve put the idea out there, it won’t be long and our cars will run on humoil, makes your Jag hummmmm!
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David u are talking about one little girl in US what about the million little girls in Iraq ,Palestine who have got more worse treatment surely the leaders which are presiding in US and Israel are far much worse in character then the Man shown above. definately to get a seat in the highest office one must be a psycopath as zionist regime will only allow a person who will do their bidding and has some dirty little secrets which will be open to the world if the so called president tries his own ways.
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