© APMichelle Carter is on trial after her boyfriend committed suicide at her urging
In Massachusetts, a teen named Michelle Carter is
on trial in connection to the suicide of her boyfriend Conrad "Coco" Roy. What's up for debate is who, exactly, is at fault for the boy's death.
Michelle and Conrad each suffered from mental health problems,
according to Marin Cogan's in-depth look at the ongoing case for
New York Magazine. Michelle sometimes made reference to a stint at the local psychiatric facility McLean Hospital to friends at school and possibly suffered from suicidal thoughts herself. Conrad also suffered from severe depression and social anxiety, and had overdosed on acetaminophen when he was 17.
As teens in love do, the pair communicated mostly through text messages, which police found the day Conrad committed suicide by carbon-monoxide poisoning in his truck in 2014.
In February 2015, Michelle was indicted for involuntary manslaughter for her texts, in which she appeared to encourage Conrad to kill himself, saying that he "just [had] to do it."
Comment: A few more
details about how she kept instigating Conrad to commit suicide:
"He sent the message at 6:25 p.m., then told his mother he was leaving the house to visit a friend and not to expect him home for dinner. He made a short drive to a remote corner of the Fairhaven Kmart parking lot. At 6:28 p.m., he called Carter and talked to her for 43 minutes. At 7:12, she called him. The call lasted 47 minutes. During that conversation, as the cab of his the truck filled with gas fumes, Roy decided to get out, Carter later told a friend. In a message she probably didn't expect to ever become public, she wrote: "I fucken told him to get back in."
CONRAD: Like, why am I so hesitant lately. Like two weeks ago I was willing to try everything and now I'm worse, really bad and I'm LOL not following through. It's eating me inside.
CARTER: You're so hesitant because you keeping over thinking it and keep pushing it off. You just need to do it, Conrad. The more you push it off, the more it will eat at you. You're ready and prepared. All you have to do is turn the generator on and you will be free and happy. No more pushing it off. No more waiting.
CONRAD: You're right.
CARTER: If you want it as bad as you say you do it's time to do it today.
CONRAD: Yup. No more waiting.
CARTER: Okay. I'm serious. Like you can't even wait 'till tonight. You have to do it when you get back from your walk.
Michelle Carter and her horrific actions in relation to the suicide of Conrad Roy give a clear insight into the mind of a classic psychopath. Carter is obviously a 'common or garden variety' psychopath, too consumed with their own pathological narcissism and pleasure in the suffering of others to realise she would be exposed. There are, however, more intelligent and 'ambitious' psychopaths who are careful to ensure that their inhuman predilections are covered up by a mask of sanity and humanity. Such types can most commonly be found in positions of power around the world.
Read
Political Ponerology and
Without Conscience: the disturbing world of psychopaths among us, for more on this most important of topics.
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It's great that the Gates Foundation is so committed to saving those poor people in Africa, who were so impoverished by the exact same imperial interests that Western 'philanthropists' represent - and all the while using debt-ridden students as the perfect guinea pigs for their trials.