Luka Magnotta arrested in Berlin for dismemberment

[Jinsai]

One could contend that it has a wider implication in that validating him with attention might cause the environment which produced him to become a bit more reinforced (before it was likely that uploading your snuff film would bring you infamy - now we know for sure it will).

That's far fetched... we've already known this to be true. The guy who shot John Lennon is a household name, but I don't think it's a real incentive. It's unavoidable that doing something extreme and shocking gets you public attention and a lifetime sentence, but this guy's time is already up and he's not going to even come close to creating a circus on par with what Charles Manson pulled off.

At this point, there's no harm in giving this story attention alongside all the other things that are fucked up that happen in this world. After all, he's going away. That said, I have no intention of ever seeing that fucking movie he uploaded, and I hope I never do.

Don't know who Kardashian is, so I presume she's a light entertainment fuckwit of some kind. I would agree that a media that hands fame to these reality tv people is part of the tissue that creates people like this killer. Or do you mean its better to give a shit about this killing than some utter fluff?

Well, I mean that it's more innocuous to give attention to an actual crime than it is to give a professional media-whore attention. Unlike this guy (whose name I've already forgotten), Kardashian isn't going to jail; she's marrying celebrity athletes and being a brainless fuckwit to the delight of American tabloids, and she's profiting from it all. That's bad, and the worse part is that she actually IS influencing people to act like her... after all she's basically following in Paris Hilton's example.

In order to give this murderer what he wants? We'd apparently have to first and foremost keep him out of prison, and that's not going to happen.

[Sutekh]

That's far fetched... we've already known this to be true.

Are you referring to the russian video or do you mean it sounds like it must be true - we have very few precedents for this kind of scenario. I don't agree that because he's been apprehended, this means his time is up. I think our culture has given him an incentive - why did he title the video "1 guy 1 icepick" - because he knew it would go viral. the environment we have suggested to this man that if he did what he did, he would get what he wanted.

I think you're mistaken If you think keeping him out of jail would be what he wanted - people like this usually feel very little anxiety about being caught, that's part of why they do such strange things, lack of inhibition, inability to project themselves into the future or onto other people. For people like him this is the start, he has an identity now

By the way I dont mean we shouldnt discuss the case, I'm just warning against watching/sharing the video (didnt make that clear)

Also apologies for total lack of punctuation, too tedious on this device