Yeah I'm not necessarily arguing in favor of tough sentencing, just trying to explain that criminals are still people and still think very, very logically. They just operate from a fact-base that's unfathomable to people who have it pretty good. Very few people wake up and say "How can I totally screw up my life today?" and think of a way, and then execute those plans to knowingly cause themselves harm.

Most of the time they just have a very different set of assumptions and givens about life.