Justified To Kill Psychological Effects

Psychological Effects of Committing Murder People who have killed have vast psychological effects from doing so. Killing can cause a person to feel as though they are distanced from humanity. Many murderers may try to dehumanize a victim to try and lessen the psychological effects that committing murder will have on them. Committing murder causes severe trauma on a person and their state of mind. Committing murder can cause a person to feel isolated from society. In his article,”Justified to Kill,” John Agar states,”What often happens with people who shoot and kill, they feel very isolated.” John Agar was a veteran, who has surely fought in combat before, showing an actual killers point of view on how alone one feels after killing. Even though not all murders are the same, the immense feelings killers feel are strong enough to last a lifetime. Comparatively, a quote from Les Misérables states,”Every blade has two edges; he wounds with one, wounds himself with the other” (Muller). This statement shows how killers feel sorrow

For example,”Killing can ruin the fragility of life for a person in an instant” (Agar). The quote shows how as soon as a person decides to kill and after they have committed murder they have millions of negative emotions and traumatic thoughts running through their brain. Also, killing can cause a person to feel a much greater perspective on how fragile the gift of life really is, and may even cause killers to question life itself after committing murder. In the book, The Violent Mind, it is said that,”Killing can cause post traumatic stress disorder from the second you do it, for the rest of your life” (Hyde and Forsyth 82). Killers often go through many emotions in the process of committing murder and this quote just goes to show how traumatic the effects are of killing and how many mental instabilities it can