Orlando parents murdered with hammer, followed by a party

[AnticorRifling]

I don't think you understand what well-adjusted means if you're thinking a well-adjusted person would beat his/her parents to death con hammer. Not to mention beat them to death, throw them in a room, and then throw a party in das same house.

[Parkbandit]

I would argue that a situation like this could happen with any otherwise ordinary, well-adjusted person. Teenagers (generally) having a biological impulse control issue just makes it much more likely for it to happen with them.

Good people do terrible things sometimes, because people are not rational beings. The extent to which our rational selves are in control of anything in the world is vastly overestimated in our culture.

So, in your mind.. a well-adjusted, otherwise ordinary teenager could take a hammer and repeatedly smash his mother and father in the face until they were dead?

Riiiight.

[Parkbandit]

I don't think you understand what well-adjusted means if you're thinking a well-adjusted person would beat his/her parents to death con hammer. Not to mention beat them to death, throw them in a room, and then throw a party in das same house.

Fuck you and your fast typing sausage fingers.

[TheEschaton]

Is it horrible that I read the title and started singing "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" under my breath like a psycho?

Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer, came down, on her head (do do dooo do)...

[Vindicate]

Only horrible if you think of Steve Martin singing it.

[Latrinsorm]

I don't think you understand what well-adjusted means if you're thinking a well-adjusted person would beat his/her parents to death con hammer. Not to mention beat them to death, throw them in a room, and then throw a party in das same house.

I think my explanation is more consistent with the evidence than any other.

[subzero]

So are you saying that generally people who perform such vicious acts never show any signs of any abnormality or unbalance? Are completely social, nice people then snap? This is the general rule?

I'm saying that you probably don't know your neighbors as well as you think you do. Mere observation as a neighbor isn't going to necessarily provide the insight required to see situations like these coming. This particular case is a rather striking example of that. His own parents didn't see it coming. Neighbors? Heh.

"We need tool control!"

Buy a condom.

[phantasm]

Would this story resonate any differently if the kid had killed his neighbors, shoved them in a room and thrown a party at their house?

[Liagala]

Would this story resonate any differently if the kid had killed his neighbors, shoved them in a room and thrown a party at their house?

It would still be seriously fucked up, but at least your neighbors aren't your family.

[Drisco]

Parents: "No, you cannot have a party tonight"
Kid: "Wanna bet?"

I also lol'd

Hammered before the party even started.

And at this one