Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-9346948-20160518004647/@comment-2112031-20160521221806

Jon Jeong wrote: Nobody700 wrote: Man, Zoom does not like himself. or he likes himself so much that he wants to create a duplicate of himself in the Flash.

I think he wants an excuse. He believes that becoming a serial killer due to his childhood trauma was unavoidable, something he had no control over. He refuses to believe that becoming a good person was something he could choose for himself, and he tries to "prove" this (mostly to himself) by trying to make Barry experience the same trauma.