How do you like your villains? Naughty-by-nature or naughty-by-nurture?

[Copper Smith]

 

I've been thinking about serial killers lately. And how weird it is that I've never met one. I mean, according to the world of fictional film and books, serial killers are everywhere, stalking our friends and neighbors, waiting in the bushes, and always watching. And yet, strangely, I can't recall the last time my path has crossed with an electric drill-wielding maniac or a cross-dressing cannibal. Maybe I should get out more.

 

Or maybe it says something about our fondness for conscience-free killers, naughty-by-nature villains who stalk, torture, murder, rinse, repeat without any obvious motive. Or without any motive at all. They're just born that way...

 

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[Rosa Pearl]

Interesting thought.  Actually, my killers are in it for the money.  I guess that is a conscience-free villain. 

[J. F. Juzwik]

Great post.