What are some motives for murder?
There are many motives for murder. For example: – jealousy – anger – feeling incompetent – fear (justified or not) – betrayal (doesn’t necessarily have to lead to anger, think for example about criminal organisations, one doesn’t need anger to find it necessary to eliminate someone for having betrayed the organisation) – money – panic – power – lust (sexual sadism) – revenge/feeling of justice – religious madness (not only think about terrorists or war, also think of serial killers who think they kill for god, or cults who kill for religious reasons) – honor (to save for example one’s family from shame, also used in criminal organisations) – mercy (in one’s mind, sometimes taking a life can seem like an act of mercy, for instance when someone is very ill) – lonelyness (think for example of killers like Jeffrey Dahmer and Dennis Nilsen.. they killed for company) – …..
