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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Well, but wait! Isn't that "clever..." sort of deranged for taking advantage of trusting fellow humans...?
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Perhaps, though I'd personally consider it to make a great deal of sense towards achieving one's goals in a sociopathic way once one has decided to step over that line and kill, and kill again.
But it all seems to be overly pat when the same person who manages to maneuver others into participating in their dirty work also happens to have a convenient suddenly-revealed mental illness which semi-absolves them of responsibility and cuts off avenues of reflection into the darker side of human nature*.
I just eye-roll at that sort of thing, which I first encountered in a particular series of cozy mysteries where I made the mistake of reading 5 in a row which did that convenient murderer-was-just-plain-wackadoodle-think-no-more-of-possible-reasons-for-killing-don'tchaknow-it-would-have-never-happened-if-they-hadn't-been-totally-doolally-all-along for
each and every one.
It's like, way to dismiss the broad spectrum of human motivation and stigmatize people with mental illness as ticking-time-bombs-of-random-murder while letting "normal" suspects off the hook because you just have to be visibly clinically insane in retrospect before you can kill someone.
* "Oh look, crazy people are cra-a-a-zy! We
all know good old salt-of-the-earth people in command of all their senses would never,
ever try and kill
anyone†…"
† Despite what, centuries of recorded evidence to the contrary?