Tzu's Views On Human Nature In Criminal Minds

People throughout history have been known to commit evil acts that harm other people. The television show Criminal Minds, consists of numerous serial killers that commit heinous crimes that harm people and a team from the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI investigates the crimes. In one particular episode called “If the Shoe Fits,” a girl named Claire kills men who she meets that are in her opinion only after sex and not true love. Throughout the episode the girl is said to be in her own fairy tale, in this case it is Cinderella. She kills men by stabbing them multiple times, impaling them with the heel of her stilettos, and placing a watch or phone in their mouths with an alarm set to midnight. In the episode the FBI concludes that her actions were caused by the situation that she was in as a child. Her father sexually abused her and left her while she was very young which caused her to target young men that were after sex (Criminal Minds Season10 Episode 6). Claire’s actions would not coincide with Mengzi views on human nature because she shows no emotion to the actions that she commits. Her actions comport with Doris, Haidt and Hsün Tzu’s views because of her situation, her moral

One can say that Claire acts selfishly for trying to find men that suit her expectations of a true lover, but to only find men who want sex. Hsün Tzu would also say that Claire’s emotions are chaotic, which cause her to make decisions that she would not reflect on because she is too deep into her own fairytale that she is blind to the fact that she is killing people. In a scene where she is talking to her next victim about just starting out dating men just a week before, she shows no remorse or any emotion that she had killed the man that she said she had dated (Criminal Minds S10 E6 24:04). Unlike Mengzi, Hsün Tzu would agree that reflection would not work for Claire because she is already who she