In so many ways this answers the reason behind "why crime?"
I'm fascinated with the choices people make. I build models in part to understand the choies people might make. We call it the OODA loop: Observer Orient Decide Act. (Thanks to COL John Boyd)
Given a set of facts shaping their perception, people execute the OODA loop in some fashion. Short circuiting the OODA loop with a rash action is also an OODA loop result action.
What is it that makes crime an option out of someone's OODA loop? Oh - the criminal mind...I don't much care for that. I understand having a low regard for one's fellow man.
I'm interested in those things that when chained together give the impetus to a person to do wrong. I love that chain.
So, why crime? I have a high tolerance for the dead, dying, maimed, injured. I'm fascinated when these things result from a logic chain that just went a little skew.
I'm fascinated by the broken compass. How long does it take to know the thing isn't pointing true?
Fascinated.
I hope you are able to trust your compass when I'm through. I know you're trusting your pen.
Write on.
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People's actions are endlessly fascinating, aren't they? I love that stuff, too.
I think, for me, I also love the fact that we crime writers create a bit of mayhem on the page, then tidy it all up at the end. :) Somehow, this is very appealing to me...
I like that chain, too--the one that makes people do things they normally wouldn't. I've been watching Prison Break on Netflix and there are a lot of interesting cases of this. I think it's why I'm enjoying it so much.
The "chain of bad" is just too good to turn away from ... maybe it was the Watergate hearings as a child. Something has put it in my psyche and I can't get enough.
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