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Reason First: Less than Dust-Murderer Richard Speck’s Worth

Speck’s terrible acts came about when he stopped thinking.

By Skyler SaundersPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
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Hatred is a mighty emotion. If applied objectively, it can be one of the most fruitful emotions to express. If left unchecked and subjective, then the only application can lead to the evil kind of bloodshed.

Richard Franklin Speck, perhaps known as just Richard Speck, spoke to a journalist after being convicted of the murders of eight women student nurses years earlier. He said, “...Keep up [Americans] hatred of me.”

He definitely deserved the loathing and aborrhence that any United States citizen could heap upon his vicious head. As mentioned above, the young women saw the horror of rape and death at the hands of Speck through being sexually assaulted, slashed, strangled, and or stabbed.

This evil beast once known as Speck relished his slayings. Only one woman, Corazon Amurao, escaped from the butchering. She leapt at the opportunity to hide under a bed at the South Chicago Community Hospital on Thursday June, 14, 1966. While her friends did not experience the same fortune, Amurao stood as the shining example of hope in a ferocious scene. Gloria Davy, Patricia Matusek, Nina Schmale, Pamela Wilkening, Suzanne Farris, Mary Ann Jordan, Merlita Gargullo, Valentina Pasion all perished in grisly, gruesome fashion.

Speck hated values. Selfishly, he should have valued his own freedoms and the lives of the women from whom he stole their lives. This subjective hate marked Speck as a waste of a human being. Again, he had no purpose in what he did with his “life.”

His whole process of abstaining from death, which is more accurate, consisted of going about killing innocent women. How is this in any way self-interested? How is it egoistic? Speck’s entire existence consisted of altruism and selflessness and of course self-destruction. His inability to deal with the facts of reality prompted him to dispatch those women.

This monster brought about evil in this world because of ethical nothingness. There is no purpose in knifing and strangling innocent human beings. For his crimes, Speck received 400-1,200 years behind bars. There, he had even more “fun” than on the outside before his death in 1991.

A tape surfaced in 1996 showing inmate Speck in 1988 engaging in sex acts with another inmate and consuming cocaine. This same footage also featured Speck with breasts as a result of taking female hormone pills. He also wore stockings.

He “enjoyed” his time behind the wall, allegedly. His ugly soul must have been wrestling with itself the entire time.

While it would’ve taken a criminal psychologist to determine what actually drove Speck to commit such foul deeds, it is apparent that with the nature of the subjectivism found in this world, once it is used to the extreme only moral collapse can arise.

With all of the ways that Speck could have found a purpose and a partner to enrich his life, he decided to go against all reason and be an unselfish, horrific subhuman. He exhibited a “life” that registered as less than dust. His choice to strike down those women showed his impotence. The power to guide a life is difficult. By taking their bodies and ultimately their lives (save for Amurao), Speck lowered himself to be a detriment to others and to himself. By just being born in the United States, Speck held more opportunities than billions of people born on his birthday a day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

In even a semi-free country, Speck had every advantage open to him. His monstrous acts could have been prevented with the application and recognition of individual rights.

It is with the ideal that a man or woman holds the opportunity to make it in America as a rational, rights respecting individual that is the solemn promise given to each American. What we do with it is up to us. For Speck, he forfeited his chance of being a real man.

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