A recent study analyzed data about 14,000 college students collected over 30 years. The shocking findings: today’s college students are 40 percent lower in empathy than students from 20 or 30 years ago.
Read Empathy: College students don’t have as much as they used to, on Newswise.com.
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Ox Drover
WOW!!!! Confessed???? Maybe he’s not a psychopath at all, cause they would NEVER confess,….. oh, well, Charlie Manson confessed, and my P-son admitted it, …..so I guess they do sometimes confess, but I’m sure it was probably HER FAULT, AND SHE MADE HIM DO IT. Probably didn’t want to give him the $1700.00 she won at the casino (which was not found in the room after he left). I’m telling you, these women just should not have made him kill them. Poor baby! Bet Peru is gonna put him in prison too….. wonder how he will like that?
Rosa
According to Fox news, Van Der Sloot says he killed Flores in a rage because she logged onto his computer, and found out he was involved in the disappearance of an American girl.
Sounds pretty psychopathic to me.
super chic
Sounds like a psycho to me.
PureWaters2
Maybe he made it up, too… he’s changed his story more than a couple times with Natalie Holloway. However, I don’t really know what the “benefit” of telling them he killed her in a rage. Could he be positioning himself to plea insanity, or hurt victim or something… dunno.
It’s tragic they weren’t able to pin him to Natalie’s death, and another woman had to go at his hands, but now… he’s going to spend a lot of time in jail in Peru. Justice will be served by taking away his freedom.
And, that makes me happy.
PureWaters2
“They also mentioned the bleach job on his hair, ah la Scottie boy!”
Wasn’t it striking how much he looked like Scott Peterson, with that bleached hair?…
At least, he didn’t have his golf clubs with him when he got picked up 😉
super chic
I read on CNN’s website that they do not have the death penalty
or life in prison in Peru. Sometimes they show leniency
when someone confesses, but I don’t think that’s gonna
happen for Joran. Sick %&*#&&^%
PureWaters2
ShabbyChic,
They probably don’t have the death penalty or life in prison, because they don’t expect them to live very long, anyways…
From what I’ve heard (from my mom, which may or may not be a legitimate source) prisons in Peru aren’t comparable to U.S. prisons, where you have nice meals, work-out time, phone time, television time, etc.
I was reading comments on CNN about Joran, and one poster said something along the lines of: he’s going to make so many nice new friends.
It cracked me up.
sistersister
Duh. Like I really needed the University of Michigan to tell me this.
I have hosted roommates in my New York apartment who, over the past 10 years, have become ever younger than I am. This means folks fresh out of college.
It never ceases to amaze me just how dismissing such people can be, though I find them polite and pleasant enough. “Inconsiderate” isn’t what I’d call it, really. Maybe “self-absorbed” is the word for:
* Walking all over the apartment with a mobile phone glued to their ear, chatting away while tripping over everything in their path. Showing up in other places, also taking calls right under the “No Cell Phones” sign.
* Checking off lists of chores done, when they clearly weren’t done (truth is relative).
* Not doing any work previously agreed to, unless reminded and given a clear deadline.
* Often charging out of their room, attacking doorknobs, slamming doors, clanging dishes and pots and pans in the kitchen, and throwing things around — and later not recalling that they were angry in any way.
* Frequent, very loud, shouting matches with significant others over the phone, heard from their room and from adjacent, Gen-Me-occupied apartments.
* Though conscientious at least in their respect for common spaces, keeping a pigsty in their room, complete with rodent-attracting dirty dishes.
* Complete disregard for common information such as the dangers of extensive cell phone use, cooking using toxic plastics in the microwave, and junk-food consumption. Utter trashing of their own bodies. For a generation so exposed to information, they seem not to have absorbed any useful facts unless these facts hit them personally, frighteningly, upside the head.
* Amazing workaholism — supposed to be a virtue, but witness the number of kids who jump out of dorm-room windows at colleges lately. These are the “survivors” of that culture. They’re out the door in 10 minutes or less, and back in at midnight.
* Psychiatric excuses like, “I’m bipolar,” for not following the simple rules of a household.
* A reaction of complete surprise when the toilet paper runs out and I’ve hidden the boxes of Kleenex. Hint, hint: go buy some once in a while. In the college-educated, a presumption that there will always be someone around to handle the “little stuff.”
* “I can’t wipe down the kitchen counters on Saturday because I have to work.” We all have room for 30-second jobs in our “schedules,” but not these folks.
And no, I don’t think these are traits of all young people, at all times. I certainly don’t remember them in my own generation, except in individuals we routinely made fun of for being completely wacked. These are not “kids,” but adults around the age of about 27. All female, by the way.
sistersister
I have to disagree:
“I think divorce makes people more skeptical/jaded, whether it’s their own or their parents’. I wonder how much that plays a role in this survey.”
I’ve spent a lifetime living down these myths of kids-of-divorce. No, neither I nor my friends with divorced parents — from the ’70s, when it was a truly traumatic event — are the least bit “jaded” just because of that. A better term is, perhaps, “realistic” about how much you cannot control another person and make them stay in a relationship, even your parents. But empathy continues. Empathy, if anything, grows in that respect for others’ realities and need for freedom. Realizing that your own parents are autonomous beings is the big, scary message for kids in a divorce, and while it may cause other problems, it can actually mature them emotionally, empathetically.
Perhaps, though, some divorced parents might overindulge their kids. They might expect less of them emotionally and reward them for not increasing the guilt they already feel. This is the only difference I ever saw between the kids who survived the experience as true human beings and the ones who came out as monsters.
ErinBrock
From what i’m hearing….they don’t need the DP in Peru!
I think that’s fabulous…..
There are so many Gorillas with great reputations at reducing the prison population……his ‘life’ should get very interesting from this point forward.
IF he confesses to NH’s murder….it will ONLY be because he thinks he’ll go back to Aruba and be imprisoned. Avoiding his Peruvian fate and harshness of his company in their prisons.
I tend to think he will take it to his grave….because that will be his last bit of control he has over a large group of people.
That said……I think his computer will show some very revealing info about his involvement in NH’s death.
THEN…..the Calpo bros may also have something to ‘talk’ about….now that the monster is busted and daddy-o is dead!!! And they know he won’t be coming back for them too…..
The twisted minds of a psychopath……
Feed him to the peruvian gorillas!!!!