They were young, brilliant coders and "Rationalists" who believed they had solved ethics. Then they started killing. 🧠🔪 We investigate the Zizians, a "vegan anarcho-transhumanist" sect led by former tech worker Jack "Ziz" LaSota, who used 'advanced' logic to justify a cross-country murder spree in 2025.

1. The Rationalist Nightmare: We expose how a philosophy of "Effective Altruism" and "Timeless Decision Theory" mutated into a death cult. Ziz preached that "mainstream values" were a form of blackmail and that the brain's two hemispheres held separate, warring identities. By "decoupling" empathy from logic, the group concluded that violence was the "optimal" solution to their problems, leading to the deaths of six people.

2. The Trail of Violence: We track the timeline of terror: from the execution of the Zajko parents in Pennsylvania to the sword attack on a California landlord, culminating in the shootout that killed Border Patrol Agent David Maland in Vermont. This wasn't random; it was a calculated war against "coercion" by people who believed they were the only conscious beings in a world of "NPCs".

3. The Code of Death: How did "optimizing the world" end in murder? We analyze the danger of "High-Decoupling"—separating intellect from humanity. The Zizians are the dark mirror of Silicon Valley's obsession with optimization, proving that when you treat human lives as variables in a "utility function," the result is not utopia, but a massacre.