Dorner reminds me of the sick pedophiles and child rapists I used to deal with while doing my internship for the parole department. The intellectual offenders would state that they were the victim, and in a weird way, make you loose thought and insight into what they actually did. They had already had convinced themselves that what they did was justifiable. It was their turn to try to get me to side with them. Dorner and these sexual offenders come from different backgrounds and have had different upbringings, but in human nature they justify their actions with reasoning. Doesn't this happen in everyday settings to everybody? In a simple lie or in a constructive argument, we justify our actions with reasoning. But when and why does it become so extreme that committing atrocities can be justified with what might be considered a convincing argument.