Hmm, on one hand you have an environment of collective hardship and efforts to strengthen civil unity and resolve, and on the other hand you have newspapers and courts making examples out of criminals with strict punishments and harsh public rebukes. Is it really any wonder that the rate of crime motivated by selfish greed was suppressed? Those kind of criminals are usually sane, despite their compromised morality. Modify the risk/reward equation and they respond rationally to that.
Senseless crimes, women being attacked with knives or worse, continued. Such criminals are depraved and don't respond to normal incentives and punishments.
> Such criminals are depraved and don't respond to normal incentives and punishments.
I think this has less to do with them being irrational and "depraved" and more to do with them being so poorly informed that their perception of risk/reward is unaffected by anything other than experience.
At this point in the conversation, I am struck with the realization that there are distinct conceptions of 'violent criminal' in the minds of the authors of each post in the preceding exchange.
Unless that notion is synchronized, perhaps by talking about a specific individual known/knowable to all parties, the conversation can not serve as a vehicle for communication any longer.
So his theory is that the psychos weren't informed of the risk of getting caught? This is just absurd, just bending-over backwards to cast psychos knifing women as victims.
Please get a grip and find a more deserving subject for your overzealous pity.
He’s saying that they aren’t able to properly weigh out the benefits and consequences of their actions. They have a reason behind wanting to kill and that reason outweighs any other desire, despite knowing the risks of killing people (death, prison, etc) which we can assume far outweigh their motivation.
Oddly enough, I'm in the middle of Bill Bryson's At Home and he talks about the early years of the war, too. Except he wrote about accidents. For a few months, the Luftwaffe was killing 6,000 people a month, and they weren't even bombing.
Senseless crimes, women being attacked with knives or worse, continued. Such criminals are depraved and don't respond to normal incentives and punishments.