Pitchfork II
T his is not about Colin Pitchfork, rather a theme that I mentioned in that post. I was asked to provide some thoughts regarding a case for a journalist. In some ways that was a small part of what he wanted to get some information about, predominantly he wanted to have some thoughts about greed and how it might be linked to offending behaviour generally, and a specific case, specifically. The piece hasn't come out yet so I don't know if there will be all kinds of uncomfortable headlines associating me to things that I didn't say - Psychologist Claims that Greed is linked to Rape. I didn't claim that, but I did wonder it (because there are evolutionary theories of rape and one could see greed as based on the idea that our needs must be met so that we survive) and if we only consider greed as a potential motivator for offending behaviour when money is involved and, where money is involved, we always assume that greed is the motivator. I was asked if greed best described ...