My explanation for this is that people who know they are shitty, horrible people usually put up a front of being extremely virtuous people as a kind of compensation, like John Wayne Gacy, who regularly appeared at hospitals and charitable events as a clown.
Part of this compensation is internal—balancing in their own minds their horrible acts against their good acts—and some of this compensation is social, so that any clues of their horrible behavior can be balanced against testimony of their virtuous behavior.
Reminds me of a movie called "Crawlspace", in it the killer after each murder plays Russian Roulette by himself and every time he doesn't die he assumes that he's not yet going to be punished by God.
My explanation for this is that people who know they are shitty, horrible people usually put up a front of being extremely virtuous people as a kind of compensation, like John Wayne Gacy, who regularly appeared at hospitals and charitable events as a clown.
Part of this compensation is internal—balancing in their own minds their horrible acts against their good acts—and some of this compensation is social, so that any clues of their horrible behavior can be balanced against testimony of their virtuous behavior.
Reminds me of a movie called "Crawlspace", in it the killer after each murder plays Russian Roulette by himself and every time he doesn't die he assumes that he's not yet going to be punished by God.