Goodbye,
it was a pleasure,
but it was too early.

this looks to be put out there for anyone to talk on...for me a criminal mind...shows itself when ...the spirit ...soul...being what ever that it is for the individual..when it becomes so broken...or no wait..that is not saying it ...that remains the same...it is when the human experience is so great in pain that the person can no longer trust nor know oneself to know there is healthy out lets to get through life...then what in a healthy brain would look like wrongs and unjust and horrific...now the human looks to these wrongs as possible answers and takes on the vengeful and ugly nature that can be there for anyone if nurtured...and nurturing a criminal mind i think is just like nurturing a healthy one..it is what it is fed...you feed killing callous behavior and soon you will become i imo think what your taking in..or least to some degree and again it depends on a history of the individual..what creates that criminal mind is in each case individual...

i don't have a criminal mind so i don't know. can only go by the symptoms displayed and make a guess. It's a mind utterly devoted to the needs of what one thinks one is owed to maintaine that image. ( ?????)

ok chip...that post for me read..your above and in a superior place...you would not know....

I think in life we are all owed the same.....

it is with the measuring ...we start getting in trouble...the labeling starts and then the columns are made and we start placing people in there column of what they deserve or not..and what they think...as i did above..i shared what i heard...not what it necessarily said...



I would say that perhaps as often as not...that it is not a feeling of owed as much as a feeling of deprived and desperation...

again back to square one...emotional needs not met..and one way or another...they find a way to be met....i stand by mo ..that humans are emotionaly driven....how do you manipulate another......

anyway just found your answer of interest..and wrote the thought of the moment...

Quite simply, a criminal mind is a mind with thoughts toward socially unacceptable actions. This is completely subjective depending on the society you live in.

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Thanks for pointing that out sendy....let me cite the reason i said what i did... since i can't look into or know the contents of another's mind i can only make a guess as to what may be in a criminal mind. And because knowing my own mind does not exhibit thoughts of taking actions that would result in what would be considered criminal i can only conclude i do not have a criminal mind. It's the old "thought leads to action" thing.

i don't know that deprivation leads to criminal behavior, i don't know that it doesn't.

It does seem to me that excessive 'me-ness' is no respecter of status or privilege in society, and that particulair obsession will seek fullfillment at the expense of anyone within it's scope of intrest. if we look around we can see it displayed from the highest social stratus to the lowest, with varying degrees of harm to other people.

"....i stand by mo ..that humans are emotionaly driven"

i agree with you since i see obsessive self neediness as emotional. But it is a genuine and not a leading question when i ask, is deprivation the primary factor?
Like most of the people i know on these forums, i lived a miserably deprived and abusive childhood and grew up tough enough to eat fence posts for breakfast...but i never deliberatly hurt anyone just because there was oppertunity to do so. i dare say few here would.

Why? What makes the difference between the deprived who would and the deprived who do not? Is there a commonality?

Ahhhh, sitting thinking... maybe i get a glimmer of what you were getting at...but will wait to see what your reply may be. Could be we are actualy talking the same thing, different expressions.

I would say you are right on the money....

I'd personally define a "criminal mind" to be when a person has made a decision-- meaning to some degree of his own free will, consciously-- that his own wishes/wants/etc. take precedence over what is lawful, over what is the rights of others, etc.

In other words, the "I Want-" is the individual's only concern.

As the opposite of "insanity," the criminal mind is fully aware of the nature of his actions.

The criminal is not the exceptional type, but the normal type in a world in which evil has been invented; as cynics like Shakespeare and Swift and Cervantes have all remarked, the criminals on the bench sentence the criminals who come before the bench. The criminal mind is precisely the average mind in this world, after the priests invented sin.