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I'm not really concerned with what the criminal tells themself. I am concerned about society at large sympathizing and excusing criminal behavior because the c

• pc_edwin 3y ago
  I'm sympathetic to your comment but I do think he has a point, it seems both of you guys are speaking past each other. I think modern society is quick to cast criminality as either circumstantial or biological. There is a non zero percentage of the population that are sociopaths and psychopaths with a top percentile disagreeableness trait yet most of these people are fully integrated functioning members of society. Although their might be predispositions, I think its moral narratives that turn an otherwise "normal" person into criminality. This goes back to your point, we should not be empathising of excusing those among us who have missed the mark with their moral narratives and downstream actions that follow.