Extraordinarily Wrong.

Ulysses Handy walked into his friends home and shot two men named Darren Christian and Daniel Varo. Almost directly after, Handy turned his gun on a complete stranger, Lindy Cochran, and killed her. When he was questioned about his motives in court, he said "She didn't say a damn word. She was shellshocked." He elaborated by saying that her freight didn't set him back at all. He explained saying, "I feel there are two kinds of people in the world—us and them. Predator and prey. Well, I'm damn sure not no prey". This man felt no remorse for his crime. To this day, he still believes he is above the law, and that his pervious actions were not wrong. This follows the theory talked about in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's, Crime and Punishment, and the character, Raskolnikov, and his 'Extraordinary Man Theory'. The extraordinary man theory states that humankind is split into two groups: the "ordinary", and "extraordinary". Raskolnikov believes that the ordinary group has the sole purpose of being the material to which society should be formed from. The extraordinary group has the right to transgress and evade the restrictions of the law. This group believes they can get away with anything, without going punished. So how does this relate to Handy's story? In Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov, much like Handy, believed he was not wrong in the murder of an innocent person. Raskolnikov thought he was one of these superior men, but soon began to question this as the story progressed. Similarly, I don't think Raskolnikov would say Ulysses Handy was anywhere near the status of an extraordinary man. In fact, Raskolnikov thought men like Newton, Napoleon, and Mahomet fell under this superior category. Nonetheless, the issue still rises that some people in our world today think they are excused form the law. These people believe they can commit any crime, and it is okay because they are "extraordinary". In result, crime rate increases, and people are faced with the challenge as to addressing this misconception. I believe every man, whatever color, race, religion, etcetera, falls under the same responsibilities to obey and respect the law. No one is above, and no one is below. This being said, Handy, Raskolnikov, and whoever else thinks they have some sort of excuse to escape the rules laid out for us as society, could not be any more wrong. Extraordinarily wrong.