The Psychology Of Criminal Tendencies: Who Takes The Blame?
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After I wrote this post yesterday, a point of view was raised by one of my engagers on that post, asking if it wasn't possible for evil minds to channel their geniuses into something rather good and truth is, there are so many angles to which this question can be answered.
First, there are people who believe the system have failed them and as a result of that it's going to be unfair to play fair in a country with unfair rules and unfair conditioning. I've spoken with a lot of people who are evil geniuses, and they've more or less given the same reasons as to why they've chosen to be the way they are. The first reason is that the world isn't fair, and it hardly pays to be fair. Truth is, we can more or less agree with them, but should it change the fact that that broad road reeks of wrongness?
A lot of people have asked me why I haven't seen fraud as a way to escape poverty, since the country is unfair to me, the system fails me, education is almost zero when it comes to its use case. There's this excuse I see from these evil geniuses, they're of the opinion that whatever they're collecting or defrauding people of, is the punishment that they are meting out to the descendants of their colonial Masters. Of course, there will always be excuses when people do things that aren't appropriate or right.
I wouldn't say I don't agree with the rot in the system. Sometimes we fail in our dispositions to uphold our moral values or discipline simply because no one is living by those dispositions, sometimes it feels as if upholding the law should be something that should conform to uniformity, when we actually look at this, it further breaks down the system.
It's true that sometimes success is often celebrated, but the process is often ignored, this means that the foundation of morality is broken. Another thing is, people who are evil geniuses feels that doing the right thing hardly pays. Sometimes these guys put in a lot of work into their scams in other to make it convincing, now it feels logical for them to actually do the same but then doing it in a legal way.
However, psychologically studying these guys I've discovered that many of them have been into legal system and prospects, they've seen how it feels to do things the right way, they've experienced it, and they've chosen a different path because the right way doesn't feel lucrative enough. One thing with these minds is that they feel invincible because they know they're incredibly talented, coupled with the fact that they feel the system is unfair, it creates a mindset in them that they can only hit it by also playing dirty.
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It's important to understand that these people feel they're doing the right thing, they've created a solid reason or purpose as to why they're doing what they're doing. They feel that since they're putting in the same energy and creative spark their effort should equal the level of their input and hence this mentality makes them feel that the amount of work put into something has to be equal to the input and if it isn't then the entire process of putting in that effort will only be a waste of time.
Truth is, in life a lot of people have put in less work and gotten more rewards and vice versa as well. Meanwhile, these people believe that it shouldn't be so, they believe that the world can only work better when we have a system that pays people according to their efforts, while this concept might feel post apocalyptic, I definitely believe it wouldn't work due to different reasons.
From the system of government, to how the human society is wired. There are no scarcity and neither is the world plague by a disaster that threatens it demise. However, we all know that this is just mere justification for wrong doings. I wouldn't really say the world is fair, it isn't.
But then it doesn't mean we should display unfair tendencies ourselves in other to actually make it fair. When these people defraud innocent people, these people they've defrauded also have lives and families, and they'll have the idea that life isn't fair as well. When everyone begins to see or have the disposition that life isn't fair it makes laws, obligation and norms to be something that would be deemed surplus to requirements as a prerequisite that guides human actions.
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