Coltan Scrivner

Yeah, that was a study that David Buss did with some colleagues.

I forget how many different countries.

It was like thousands of people, though, men and women.

It was a little more common with men, but it was like 80 to 90 percent of people or something had fantasized about killing someone.

So, of course, you ask the question, well, why haven't they done it?

Because there are consequences to killing someone, of course.

Yeah, and of course, you have other psychological detractors that motivate you not to murder people.

What that study says that's really interesting is that the sort of cognitive machinery is there to plot and plan and be ready to kill someone if you really had to.

I think that's what that thing is showing.

And so I guess we could talk about that fourth dimension now.

Violence is kind of the center of all of this, right?

It's all about

not becoming a victim of violence in whatever fashion, whether that's an accident or a predator or a dangerous person or someone you think is dangerous like a witch or other person.

It's all about not becoming a victim of violence.

That's really what morbid curiosity is about.

But there's still a distinct domain within morbid curiosity that is about violence because there are a lot of ways to learn about violence.

So we talked about three of them.

One is learning about it by learning about the minds of other people, predicting who's going to be dangerous and when and why.

Another one is learning about the outcomes of violence.

That's the bodily injuries one.