Coltan Scrivner
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I talk about in the book Dahmer saying that he was morbidly curious.
He used the term.
He was being interviewed and asked why he went back to look at a body or something.
He said, because I was morbidly curious.
And he said, in all these movies, it's stories about this stuff, but I actually do it.
And then I give the example of the Columbine shooters.
They supposedly loved the game Doom and they loved Mortal Kombat.
This is in the 90s when those are the violent games.
And so, of course, in both of those cases, people are like, aha.
That's why Dahmer killed and ate people because he liked The Exorcist 3.
And that's why those kids shot up the school because they played Doom.
Yeah.
Along with 10 million other kids who didn't shoot up the school.
Exactly.
Along with every other kid in school.
No.
But we want answers.
Again, that's an intuitive answer, right?
But then you have to ask, well, what about every other kid that plays violent video games?
And what about the evidence that shows that it's not related to aggression, which is pretty much all the evidence.