Adam Lanza's Motive

Can we all agree that his idea of "saving children" was complete bullshit and was just a way he justified what he did in his head? The real reason why he did it is because he wanted to get himself in a situation with such dire consequences that he'd have to commit suicide, as his life was too "comfortable."

"I hate using this word because it’s misleading, but my life right now is way too comfortable to . . . for me to feel forced into killing myself. But . . . that’s probably going to be the way I die, I’m going to .. . I, I, well either that or I’ll develop the discipline to just say, 'None of this is helping me I just need to die and I know that I won’t want to go through with it at the last second but I just need to do it'" (SomethingSea Response Part 2/2)

So-called "experts" saying his motive is still unknown just didn't care enough to do an ounce of research.

Let me know if you disagree or have found an additional motive.

I don't think the motive Adam Lanza fanatics tend to theorize about was completely bullshit. The killing of his mother and his target of choice was most likely been determined after a pretty considerable amount of time given the situation he was put in. Most of this was due to Nancy Lanza enabling Adam to neglecting human's forced superficial needs (which he hated) and obsessions. I'm not saying that Nancy made him helpless, but it allowed Adam (intentionally or not) to sort of rationalize his obsessive behaviors, with one of those being mass murder. That's kind of the thing with mass murder, people tend to rationalize the act of killing people because society deems it as irrational.

I think he just did it because he was a broken person that could not derive any enjoyment out of his life anymore. Committing a massacre would have helped him to portray his worldview to the world, or express his sort of academic interests that mostly revolve around his upbringing. I get the part about him being comfortable, it's a strange feeling, but it could be described as a sense of tranquility while still being largely depressed. Perhaps he was a bit too comfortable, since his extended leisure could have caused him to be bored and cause his brain to want to exit the comfort zone he made for himself. Brains work really weirdly, because the host is not always on a person's side. Even if people have largely different personalities their brains tend to strive for the same things. I generally hate most of the mental health crap that gets pushed onto people, but I do agree with the general stance that not wanting to live makes someone "ill" because life at its core lives to replicate itself and its values.

Maybe cuddling could have fixed him, his comfort could have stemmed from someone showing affection towards him instead of the comfort his battle station box provided.

There's a lot of spooky things about Adam Lanza. His motive and thought process only remains a mystery to most because it doesn't fit in a headline and is too abstract for the public to accept. Hence the conspiracy theories and post-mortem diagnosis of schizophrenia. He documented his realizations surrounding life being a cycle of suffering, and how he had attempted to rid himself of desire. He couldn't feel pain or hunger and was constantly fasting, isolating, and spending the bulk of his time in deep introspection. I was always under the impression that Lanza was some low iq braindead Jelly because of the way he looks so i find his articulation and self-awareness striking. He's unique among shooters in that he was genuinely schizoid. This is why some believe that he never existed, schizoids rarely become famous and either kill themselves, become homeless, or live on the fringes. He left behind next to nothing because he did next to nothing. He didn't want fame, he didn't bother intentionally writing a manifesto, and with the act of killing his mother and destroying his hard drive he took away the main sources of information about himself. He was obsessive about maintaining privacy and distance even after death. Lanza was incapable of living normally and he was well aware of this. He had no values, no drive, no ambitions, no goals, no motivation, no attachments, gained no pleasure from anything and couldn't care about anything. He probably thought that since he was going to end his life, he might as well use the tools at his disposal to stir things up in the world, and "free" some kids from life in the process. He was in an apathetic suicidal haze, a case can be made for anorexia-induced brain damage. If he had not done the shooting he would've just killed himself as he originally planned, and if he had not killed himself he would've just died of starvation. The depressive state he was in throughout 2012 reminds me of the pit of despair experiment.