The Wire

What leads a person to commit mass murder? What is going on in their mind that allows them to plan out and kill people in seeming cold blood? The world has seen an increasing number of mass homicide events which seem to have a number of elements in common: a disturbed male, a published manifesto and an overwhelming desire to enact revenge. Writer Anne Manne argues these may be cases of a phenomenon called ‘malignant narcissism’, and she says Sydney Lindt cafe killer Man Haron Monis is just one case in point.

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