The man who sold the world

From the perspective of a criminal, committing a crime would surely give an appreciation of seeing someone dying. That is to say if the crime being committed is killing a person. Crime has a lot of its own faces. From simple to complex kind. I read a book once that to be able to commit a suave crime, however simple or complex that is, you have to go into the mind of your victim. It's like a step by step process. That is if you are protecting yourself from harm, very ironic perhaps but that's the thing about crime. You don't just jump from out of nowhere and declare crap. Only small time swindler do that. The art of crime begins with ingenuity.

If you are not caught, the process continue to exceed beyond just ordinary swindling. The art of deceiving other people would consumed and would be very addicting. Isn't art right there? There were even some who committed crime just for the hell of hearing a gun being fired at other people. Just like in the book Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, this Mr. Harvey was very obsessed with killing little kids. He could not help himself. He had gone into the process where he consumed this obsession by killing animals instead. But that didn't last long, he wanted to hear the ripping of skin, the blood and all. So what he did was to always create a trap for his victims. Very artistic even though it was put into a wrong reason. By creating a foreplay, the anticipation of the crime become so wondrous for him.

Morality, norms and social rules grounded crime as one of the most sinful a human being could do. Like if you are a criminal, you are not fit to live a life anymore. But, that's where society totally got it all wrong. To live a thrill live is very exciting and exhilarating. Fooling people, manipulating them and all gives the feeling of edginess. In If tomorrow comes by Sidney Sheldon, the main character says that to be a con artist doesn't mean you have to harm people to get what you want from them. It takes s total ingenuity to maneuver something. There was a part there in the book where she thought there would be no way she could steal the Goya painting but with the stroke of ingenuity, she pulled it off.

If all morals be set aside for just two hours, I would sell the world and take the risk of committing a crime for the sake of art. You know what I’m saying here of course, it all boils down to the fact that morals and rules would be impossible to put aside. Only the indifferent and the absurd would come knocking to the door of unhappiness.