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Concepts of the indecent, the obscene and the immoral, From the basis of a logical and well-thought out
along with the laws that deine them, apply to people inquiry, the skilled inquisitor goes beyond the status
and not livestock. In fact, perhaps it ought to be a grave quo to deeper recesses of meaning. However, for
insult to the animal kingdom when we compare our so called average person, he or she does not easily
behaviors to them. Who else in the name of religious accept more challenged thinking, as regards the nature
extremism, superstition and mythology, would of criminality. A majority take shortcuts to project
construct ghastly torture devices and techniques to the level of believability preferred. They do this,
kill off heresies? Captured, kidnapped and forcefully rather than pursue, with wisdom and understanding,
carried off, cruel killer’s rape, skin alive and dismember experience and knowledge, testing and objective, the
their captives. validation for a mature analysis.


Some do their death experimentations in singular Fictions replace facts with fantasies that become
responses, with clever excuses and rationalizations, the means to self-gratiication. Most desire wishful
individually. Others maim and murder in the name of thinking for irrationality of emotional security, instead
an ideology, state sanctioned cultic cause, or communal of the relentless pursuit of evidentiary necessity, and
conformity. Through all our hypocrisy and arrogance, suficiency of provability. A number of people relish
we have the gullible gall to claim we have found all the in the collusive collectivism of slothful supericiality
answers to what makes us tick. None the less, another and hypocrisy. In the process, there is an acceptance
question could be asked. What other living entity of meager, naïve and unsophisticated explanations for
premeditates, cunningly plans and willfully executes the ruse of murderous mindsets, satisied with quick
with malice aforethought mass killings of genocidal “answers”.
proportions? Humans not only have a penchant for
killing other humans, as well as animals and the In general people freely choose to do what they do,
environment, but also enjoy the taking of another’s whether in criminal complicities, tribal prejudices or
property. For selish aggrandizement, people make their social trickeries. While vast numbers of people resist
choices. change, especially in themselves, we can always
count on our own degrees of deception. When one
The means by which this is done runs the gambit from decides to contravene illicitly community sanctions,
embezzlement, banking, the stock market, to robbery he or she makes a selish choice to beneit him or her.
and the horrors of rape and murder. In the process of The essence of criminality is in the mental faculties of
arrogantly bullying advancement of personal self- the individual, self-invented and self-proclaimed, and
interests, some of the perpetrators nearly collapsed not a relection of society’s shortcomings or its social
the global economy, and “murdered” a diversity of diversities. We are accountable for all we say and do.
lifestyles. Yeah, killers come in many forms, with
varied credentials, and divert their salacious excesses in Yet, many of us labor foolishly in holding to the
divergent ways. But by contrast, from an investigative “divinity” for deterministic societal psychobabble,
posture, many of us cling to some supernatural notion fused by the nebulous notions of one-dimensional
of deterministic fabrication. Fault, alibi and excuse estimations. Something or someone is always the
comingle in the contrived mental copulation of scapegoat. What would be helpful in the exploration
excusatory communal complicities. and description of the criminal nature, and particularly
the murdering mind spectrum, is to avoid assuming
Most likely from closely held belief systems, on the narrowness of personal perception. Those in
“faith” alone and typically of a religious nature, many the ield of practitioner oriented criminology, who
prefer to believe conspiracies in the externality of the ought to know better, should focus on clarifying the
paranormal. That’s what you get when you agree with internalities of bias for desired subjective validations.
the “devil made me do it” mentality. It’s not your fault,
it’s always someone else to blame. Most often, that is Outside the criminological realm, the non-practitioner
the impetus behind asking “why” instead of “what”, so needs to do his or her research in very serious analytic
you can blame the gods or demons. ways. No one should take anything at face value and



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