Contributed Post
You may have noticed that there is a huge trend right now to be into all things crime-related. From watching documentaries on Chippendales murders and listening to podcasts on true crime like MFM to hungrily gobbling up fictionalized versions, as written by great writers like yours truly. Yet, aside from the fascinating stories that the crime genre presents us with, there are many other valuable lessons to be learned from its collected wisdom. Read on for sound and sage advice….
Beautiful people commit crimes as well
Ted Bundy, Rodney Alcala, Jack Unterweger. All men that some may think of as attractive at the time. All bonafide serial killers too. This lesson from the crime genre is all about not judging someone on their looks.
Of course, usually, it’s the other way around, in that we are reminded not to discount less attractive or presentable people as being kind or good. However, the rule applies this way around too. After all, looks and presentability are no measure of the personality inside, and that means beautiful people kill, and commit other crimes, the same as anyone else. To that end, don’t just trust someone based on their looks.
Things aren’t always as they seem
Another thing that the crime genre teaches us is that things aren’t always as clear-cut or as obvious as they seem. Yes, when it comes to crime people tend to hide their true intentions, they even lie and manipulate to get their way. Then if that doesn’t work they can resort to something even worse! I guess the lesson here is that the most sensible and obvious answer isn’t always the right one when it comes to crime or life.
Instead, we have to peel the layers of the onion, using our skills of judgment to check whether what people are saying matches up with the way they are behaving and work from that. In essence, don’t always taking people at their word is the lesson to be learned here!
You need an attorney, even if you are innocent
One of the biggest and most important lessons to come out of the crime genre is that even if you are innocent you will need an attorney to fight your case. Indeed, with true crime, in particular, the annuals are littered with cases where the wrong person is arrested and put in prison for life for a crime they didn’t commit.
With that in mind, the very best thing that you can do if you get arrested is to track down a team of strategic criminal defense attorneys, even while still in custody. Then you can be sure you will be getting the best advice on how to act, which can have a significant impact on your case if it does come to trial. After all, it’s not only your freedoms that matter here, but if you are falsely accused and convicted then the real culprit gets to walk free and continue their atrocities.
Motivation doesn’t matter, murder is always the wrong choice
The next lesson that the crime genre has taught us is that aside from the moral issue involved, while some people may have reasons we can understand they only ever mess up their own lives even further by committing murder.
Probably, the prime example of this in practice is Gypsy Rose Blanchard whose mother, Dee Blanchard confined, abused, infantilized her for decades. Indeed, most people would be hard-pressed to not understand, at least in part, why this abused girl would do anything to be free of her mother.
However, despite the situation, Gypsy Rose Blanchard still finds herself in prison today, serving out her sentence. Thereby using up even more of the life she has already missed out on, paying her debt back to society.
It’s OK to not be polite
In countries like the US and UK, a great store is placed on politeness. We are instructed to be polite to adults and strangers when we are children and expected to do the same as we grow up. Yet, as Karen and Georgia from MFM suggest, a better approach is to Fu*k politeness!
Fu*k politeness is all about honoring our instincts, and not doing something just because it’s the polite action or it’s what society expects us to do. The crux of the matter is that many that would wish us harm will play on these societal norms to get us to comply and into a situation where we are ending and unable to escape until it’s too late.
Indeed if there is but one single thing you take from the crime genre, let it be Fu*k politeness. It might just save your life.
