Why are these nerds so horny for murder?

If you're a nerd, do you fantasize about murdering people a lot? Asking for me, because there's the weirdest Reddit thread going viral today about people killing strangers in self-defense. It's your typical "I roundhouse kicked a guy in the face so hard he died" fare, but the odd thing isn't the stories themselves, but the comments underneath. Read them and you'll see they are all achingly, painfully horny for murder.

Check out these comments posted under a story about a woman who says she killed a man by choking him so hard she crushed his windpipe.

These dorks are all hornier than a middle schooler trying to hide an erection in Chemistry. But they're all horny for killing people! Is this normal? Why would anyone want to fantasize about murder, even if it is legally-justifiable?

Like this dweeb, who commented that the way a guy killed a stranger in an alley was "something straight out of Hollywood."

There may be a troop-respecting element to this, as a lot of the people claiming to have done murders claim to be ex-military. There are certainly a lot of commenters nursing semis about what would happen if they were in that situation where they got to kill someone.

This is weird as hell. There's imagining yourself in a fight, and then there's fantasizing yourself getting accosted by strangers in an alley…. your hot wife cowers behind you (in this universe she is the cheerleader who rejected you in high school)… then you pull out this totally sweet katana to slice a group of fictional tough guys to death… you tip your fedora at them as the final guy falls to the ground, your cape fluttering in the wind… hell yeah.

I'm not saying this is as bad as stanning Dylan and Eric, but is it a million miles away from that? How else are you supposed to interpret a story about a murder where the response is "Time to put on sunglasses, a leather jacket, and ride a motorcycle with a shotgun, because that's your badassness level! Awesome!"

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