Can we separate the cause for what drove him to do that from what caused his other, less acceptable, behavior? There's been a lot of looking purely at the tech

Can we separate the cause for what drove him to do that from what caused his other, less acceptable, behavior? There's been a lot of looking purely at the technical merits of stuff in the past few decades, with quite little attention paid to the causes or effects of the technology in question, to my mind. I'm not sure it's left us in a particularly good position.