Anthropology Policing Politics

Different Kinds Of Beings

October 20, 2026 by David 1 Comment

We’ve often discussed the psychology of criminals, especially violent criminals, and the determination of many progressives to superimpose motivations entirely different from those that are actually in play. See, for instance, these rather vivid examples, in which carjackers are more than happy to reveal what makes them indulge in carjacking.

Needless to say, it ain’t desperation.

I mention this because some fashionable and quite wrong-headed assertions are being aired, with an all too familiar imperviousness:

Efforts at correction ensue, including items that are brief but not irrelevant, and objections to the assumptions of such go-to pieties:

This chap helpfully remarks,

There is negative correlation between income and crime, but it’s not causal – it’s just that third factors (like lower IQ, executive function/self-control, high impulsivity, aggressiveness, etc.) cause both criminal behaviour and lower income.

Before steering the author of the original post to a study showing how sudden windfalls – say, lottery wins – have no effect on criminal tendencies, beyond a slightly increased risk of speeding tickets.

Ditto guaranteed basic incomes, as shown by this study.

Or put another way,

And I rather like this one:

At which point, readers may wish to revisit the carjackers mentioned above and their delight in seeing their victims soiling themselves in terror. Because, to quote a carjacker named Tall, “It’s a rush thing… I feel good.” Or as a female carjacker named PoPo put it, “It’s funny just to see them shaking and pissing all over theyself.”

The latter being a charming creature who assaults and terrorises random people, at gunpoint, robbing them of their cars and wedding rings, before getting her hair done.

The struggles of many progressives to understand what empathy actually is have been noted before, at some length and with relevant illustrations.

As I said at the time:

Understanding the mental states of others, their motives and assumptions, insofar as one can, doesn’t necessarily result in positive feelings towards them, or identification with them, or lead to a default forgiveness and willingness to excuse their behaviour. Simply put, if your “empathy” results in you being endlessly forgiving, endlessly accommodating, over and over again, then you’re almost certainly doing it wrong.

Or not doing it at all.




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