"You said you could not have committed your crimes without [societal influence]. What did you mean? Please elaborate." --- K.B. of TN

No man is an island, and no rapist or murderer ever acts alone. Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a network of connected beliefs, fears, prejudice, and ignorance to create a "monster". The most relevant and clear example of this is the belief I held when I killed that I had a "right" to do so. I could not have killed anyone without this "belief" which became my rationalization for acting against my "better nature". And my belief that I had the right to kill was the direct adoption of society's consensual belief that it has the right to kill.

The only thing that amazes me about this concept (that no one acts alone), is the way so many people pretend to understand it when the result is presumed positive (e.g. when "it takes a village to raise a child) and yet then they completely reject it when the result is negative and hence reflects upon their own beliefs, fears and ignorance. The example I gave above where I believed I had the right to kill (and incidentally to judge and condemn in the name of "justice") is only one piece of the complex intellectual connection I had to the society that "raised" me that was critical to the inevitable outcome of my raping and murdering children. So if you pick it apart with other inept rationalizations (such as, "society has the right to judge, but not you", which ignores common sense and invokes nothing more than the same "gang mentality" that the Nazis and so many others used), then you are not only missing the point, but actively illustrating the precise type of learned ignorance that led to my own demise.

The intellectual "problems" with my thinking did not just "happen" independent of my experience with society. It happened as a direct result of that "experience". And until we (all) start accepting this and acting accordingly (by changing the structure of society's "thinking" rather than continuing the madness of "blaming" individuals for their thinking and behavior) then said madness (e.g. the rape and murder of children) will continue. I have insisted since my arrest in 2005 that it would have been better if someone simply put a bullet in my head and threw my body in a dumpster behind that Denny's where I was found with the little girl. Even if I was completely "innocent" of any "wrong-doing", killing me would have been better than making a big show out of judging and condemning me and calling it "justice". Because, by putting on such a show, we are telling our children, "smoking is bad for you!", even as we force them to breathe the poisonous smoke we inhale.

(Note: Everything I am trying to say here is backed by research and history. So rather than judge it by its source, as coming from a "child killer", why not find out for yourself if it is true? Because if it is true, and you continue to ignore it, then you are the "sicko", not me.)

[J.D. February 2, 2017]