The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
Chapter 7: Axes of Evil
Page 10: Conclusion
Because he was more depraved, that’s why.
(And like responsibility, assessing depravity is more of a gut instinct than a reasoned deduction.)
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So these are our three “AXES of EVIL” which will determine how bad someone was.
Taken together, these determine how deserving of punishment someone is for a given act.
But what IS this “act” we keep mentioning? We’ll get to that next time in Part 8: “What Have You DONE?”