Thread 2844776

Jonathan Rinderknecht caused about a quarter trillion dollars worth of damage and killed at least a dozen people with a barbeque lighter that couldn't have costed more then like 20 dollars.

Why are these types of crimes so rare? There's tens of thousands of people who commit suicide every year in the USA and hundreds of thousands of homeless people. I'm not trying to encourage more violence or crime just curious why these types of stories are so rare

>>2844776 (OP)
Two main things are that the conditions have to be just right for an individual to be able to multiply their damage like that and that most people simply aren't very creative. After the movie 'The Burning Bed' was broadcast, dozens of women tried to kill their husbands by setting their bed on fire while he slept. They could have done that before watching the movie but their brains never were able to put those thoughts together. Lots of copycat crimes happen that way. Next time the conditions are right for this type of fire, don't be surprised if someone tries to make it happen again now that they know it's possible (even though it's long been possible).

>>2844776 (OP)
>Jonathan Rinderknecht
don't even need to check the "early life" section

>>2844781
do you believe most or all people have little to no libertarian free will?

>>2844814
Sorry to go on a bit of a tangent but the word libertarian is a pile of wet jello and is worthless for use in conversation since its meaning can be morphed on the fly to mean whatever the speaker needs it to mean in the moment.
As for free will, that's a huge philosophical question that humanity has struggled with since developing consciousness, so it won't be resolved here. What I do believe is what I already wrote: most people are not very creative and lack initiative to do much of anything that isn't within the bounds of whatever heuristics they've learned to get through life. Their mental decision tree only expands when they see someone do something new in a easily understood and digestible manner. Using abstract thought to bring together several previously unrelated concepts is beyond them. Western society is full of guardrails and padded corners that make the default path easy to follow, even if it's not the path that would provide the best results.
That's most people but not all people. Innovators do exist and some use their innovation to destroy the world around them for various reasons.

>>2844812
German? So what? I do hope you realize that it's not a Jewish last name.

>>2844818
If people aren't capable of coming up with new ideas doesn't that undermine moral responsibility and desert morality?

>>2844821
>>2844818
For example how could someone be held responsible for not believing Jesus rose from the dead if they can't come up with new ideas? For an agnostic that would require so much freedom