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What makes you think Jeffrey Dahmer was a happy, mentally-healthy, well-adjusted human being? Where's the compassion for him?


I have great compassion for Jeffrey Dahmer.

And do you realize that you just compared making an awkward joke to killing loads of people?


I made no such comparison. It's called Reductio ad absurdum: http://www.iep.utm.edu/reductio/

My point was that if we accept your argument, we must also accept the patently absurd (at least to me) argument that one must have compassion for Jeffrey Dahmer, and it doesn't sound as though you disagree.


Why is it abdurd to have compassion for jeffrey dahmer?


I have a lot of compassion for him.


A serial killer




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