@ Thee Odball
Sociopath might be any easy label, but his testimonies etc indicate that he does have a social conscience - the very reason he did what did (according to him) was, in his view, to protect society.
Kupsised
"He said he played online fantasy role-playing game World of Warcraft as well as shooting simulation Call of Duty, which he said helped to hone his strategies for what he believed would be a suicide mission.
"Some people dream about sailing around the world, some dream of playing golf. I dreamt of playing World of Warcraft," he told the court.
He insisted the game was a social, not very violent strategy game, which was "pure entertainment [and] has nothing to do with July 22".
Breivik said he played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare as actual training for the shooting spree.
"It is a war simulator. It gives you an impression of how target systems work," he explained, adding he used it to practice "shooting other people".
"The plan was to not surrender before the whole plan had been carried out," he told the court.
"It was a suicide mission where the probability of survival was equal to zero."
On the day of the attacks last July he arrived in Oslo's city centre and was surprised life did not imitate art.
He told the court: "I expected three or four officers to come out and get me".
But Utoeya survivor Tore Bekkedal says linking war games addiction to acts of terrorism is a knee-jerk reaction.
"I've played the same violent video games and I don't go round bloody shooting kids. I mean half the people in Utoeya played the same games," he said."
read more ->
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-1...-utoya/3961532
Perhaps the video game association was shot down by comments from one of the survivors?