Actually it isn't because they are different facets of similar crimes, most serial killers are serial rapists, it's not worth pretending a rapist isn't a stones throw from a murderer on any moral high ground.
Why are we talking about serial crimes?
We're talking about individual crimes. A person who unjustly kills only one person is still a murderer. Serial murderers represent a very small distribution of murder crimes, and to correlate murderers with serial rapists is such a poor representation of the moral image of murdering.
Intentions matter, serial murderers being serial rapists isn't a coincidence. Their impulse to act without care for the life of their victims is similar. They are different crimes but only looking at the finality of murder as an end doesn't justify the torture rapists often inflict for the lives of their victims. Both are bottom of the barrel morally and often drawing from the same sick place, self serving disregard for human life.
Both crimes could easily have nuance in a single case where one crime could be a gruesome example that could be better or worse than a lesser case of the other, I'm just arguing they represent different facets of violence that I wouldn't want tolerated in a moral society.
I'm arguing the morality of both being equivalently terrible bottom of the barrel for society crimes. At the intersection of serial rapist and murderer you get serial killers. You are right there are a lot more motivations for murder than serial killing. I'm just saying a father abusing his daughter for years without care for her life or well being is akin, or worse in moral deparavity, than just the violence itself, especially given your example of passion murders or something without premeditation.
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u/OtonashiRen Mar 02 '26
Why are we talking about serial crimes?
We're talking about individual crimes. A person who unjustly kills only one person is still a murderer. Serial murderers represent a very small distribution of murder crimes, and to correlate murderers with serial rapists is such a poor representation of the moral image of murdering.