A victim of a stabbing thinks our true crime obsession is creepy

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So our brains likely have an obsessive urge to be interested about violence. Some might be feeling enough disgust or that they are just scared about violence and they don’t like to see any kind of violence. You can try to fight with your own brain but natural urges usually win.

Interesting point. There’s another appeal to watching police interrogations that I find pretty interesting. As Scott Sharpe from the hilarious YouTube series “True Crime Loser” put it: watching an interrogation you realize “I’m fucked, but I’m not nearly as fucked as that guy is”. There’s a certain comfort in that, ha.