rifza dilatru journal

"What it takes to murder another cannot be an intrinsic quality of humanity, for the murderer's acts are deviations from the norm. When a murder occurs, it is outside the accepted values of civilized society, not an event that is welcomed and understood. It is an aberration of behavior, a distinct flaw in the nature of the personality, and yet not one so rare as to be unheard of. Murders happen all the time, there can be no denying it, but slayings of a certain kind spark in my mind a more sinister fear than that associated merely with the advent of death."
[10:03 PM]
"It's one matter to be confronted with a crime of passion, one can almost understand (yet never condone) the deadly urge a jilted lover succumbs to when encountering his paramour's secret companion, or the passionate rage of a slandered or cheated merchant when faced with the source of his distress. These killings, in my studies, are followed by often overwhelming sensations of guilt and shame, as if the very mind of the murderer has grown ill with the soul it is attached to. Vengeance slayings too assuage my fears, for here the righteousness of the act mitigates the crime; the death, as regrettable as one person's end may be, only betters society as a whole."