What Happens to Our Brains When We Kill?

Soph is here to talk about what happens in the brain when people kill. Thank you for watching.

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[shewolf]

shes talking about murderers and there is happy music playing in the background.. this is hilarious

[mariadm]

imagine an horror movie scene, someone dying, with this music

[timothysimon]

That's some cheery music you've got there

[TQ]

video took too long to explain what happens to our brains when we kill so I killed to find out instead 👍

[circleman]

"Today I'm going to be talking to you about what happens to our brains when we kill"

*Cue happy music

[antifagoat]

Apart from brain anatomy, I didn't really learn much here. People have more remorse when they can see the faces of their victims? Duh. People come up with excuses when they feel like it's "just doing their job" to kill another soldier? Of course. That's why we have wars of soldiers against soldiers while attacks on civilians are generally considered war crimes.

I was really hoping this would be about cognitive dissonance findings. I've never killed a person of course, but I used to fish and, yes, I had to catch, kill, and clean (that is to say butcher) the fish I caught. It was never something that made me feel sad or bad, but I couldn't imagine taking a gun and shooting a rabbit or some other mammal. Now that I'm older, I see logically there's really no difference. It's about human identification with some animals over others and that I justified one animal as food and the other a beautiful creature. Rather than being optimistic about how I'll save all the animals by being nonviolent, it's made me realize that I could kill for my food if I need to, fish or rabbit. While I can live my life currently as a humanitarian and mostly vegetarian, it's important to know that this rather dark part of my animal instinct exists.

[lisabunnie]

The music is hardly appropriate for the subject, I think.

[lukosta]

Serious subject, happy clown music and a brittish accent do not go well together.

[DJBioBain]

Listen to someone talk about murder to unfitting music.

[Animelia]

I wasted 3:39 seconds to listen to someone state the obvious. You don't feel as much shame when killing someone guilt as much as someone innocent. Good job

[Sarahmint]

It's not hard to realize how angry you are when you are shooting the same team who just killed your friends.

[Joe-zwep]

If you had the script at eye level and sat a little further back it would be harder to see your eyes reading things :)

[memsus]

This woman seems very uncomfortable throughout the video. Have you ever killed anyone? ;)

[ed]

Wow how surprising. People feel better about killing a terrorist than they do about killing an innocent civilian. Gee I never would have guessed that. I mean who could know that people would sympathize more with an innocent civilian than they would with a terrorist. (In case you couldn't tell --I wouldn't be surprised because of the level of intellect you've shown in this video-- that was sarcasm.) Like seriously? People feel more guilty about killing an innocent person, and less guilty about killing a bad person. You have a channel based around looking at psychological traits and this was the best you could come up with. Terrible video.

[noel]

can you skip the music? the music makes it very hard for me to listen to your video in the background

[mateuszdworak]

What happens when we kill someone innocent: our soul gets torn, we can now make a horcrux. Profit?

[haibigboy]

Music is inappropriate, better replace it with Benny Hill's. Oops.

[QuackersMcCrackers]

You know the music at the start of the video? I play that every time I kill someone ^.^

[guard]

I like how there's just like happy music in the background 😂😂😂👍

[xanderandherson]

I was actually trying to figure out what happens to our brains when someone we love or even know is murdered 😔😢 something definitely happens to us. It literally changes us 💔