When do you try to understand where the other person is coming from?

There are times when people have a very strict notion of what is right and what is wrong. If someone does something wrong, they don’t bother to try to figure out what motivated that person. It seems like it is just chalked up to moral failure.

Do you try to understand why someone would murder someone? Or rape? Or be a pedophile? Or cheat on a spouse?

Or, do you instead believe it’s not worth the time to think about why they might do it? They did it. Time to write them off. Throw them in jail. Throw away the key. Out of sight, out of mind.