Why is it so common to be interested in true crime when at the same time you're disturbed by it?

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• rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fear is important for us. And your brain mostly prefers fear that can’t harm you.

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Wow, my life is fucked - but at least it’s not that fucked up.”

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  • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As my wife is currently rebinging Dexter

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Crime is so fascinating.

  Like especially things like terrorism and mass murders

  Reading about their fucked up life give me hope, gives perspective on how much better my life is that I did not end up becoming a mass murderer of innocent people.

  So if anyone is depressed out there and feeling worthless, remember, you haven’t murdered anyone yet (I assume, right? Anyone murderers on here?) so you’re a very good person by that standards.

  (Btw: for those murderers who get released, how the fuck do they find a job, if people with clean records are also having so much trouble finding a job?)

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  • FoxyFerengi@startrek.website ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are programs for people with felonies to find jobs, typically found under “re-entry” or “second chance”. They’re often sucky, poorly paid jobs though.

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• InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why Are We Morbidly Curious?

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• zeropointone@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s the same as with fictional horror. It gives you a sense of control. You can play and you can stop at any time.

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because you’re disturbed by it.

  Sometimes it’s that simple.

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  • Nasan@sopuli.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To expand on this, people tend to think “how could a person do something like this to another person”. We become curious about the mystery of events and/or circumstances that drive people to commit such acts.

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• null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Being disturbed is engaging.

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• Ziggurat@jlai.lu ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Full story, often quite awful (you never see true crime about a drunk driver, but when a chemistry student uses acid to get rid of his ex gf body it’s get in true crime show), and with a lot of technical and legal details all of that make it interesting provided you have a good narrator

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