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So your contention is that someone committing the crime detailed above by Cricket is not necessarily insane?
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I would have thought that I had made that clear.
He could be insane, but it isn't a requirement to commit the crimes. Two things you should understand about criminals. One, most know the risks and accept them. "It is worth more to me to see somebody dead, or my fantasy realized, than it is to live semi-free in society without achieving my dreams." Doesn't mean they are going to turn themselves in, but it's not like they are oblivious to the threat they face from the justice system.
And two, in their own minds, most crimes are justified. Rapists can defend rape so effectively you might end up agreeing with them. The argument goes, men are animals, with testosterone, and they cannot control who they are attracted to - they are born that way. Animals rape other animals. It's natural. Society has no right to punish somebody for doing what nature intended them to do.
You don't have to be insane to think that way. You don't have to be insane to have extremely powerful sexual urges. You just have to be willing to disregard the socially created right of others.
A lot of criminals in fact think they are the better humans. They are being subservient to a social construct they perceive as emasculating.
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Can you honestly conceive a 'normal' person doing that?
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Yes. I think many normal people want to do stuff like that, but they are either restrained by morality, or by cowardice.