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I can see how you would see the two as similar. Certainly, by the time dorner made his choice to murder people, he was engaging in self-absorbed thinking.I don't see dorner as too far off from Duncan. He wasn't fighting a cause unless the cause was his narcissistic sense of entitlement.
I'm looking at it from a different pov, I guess. Duncan was always narcissistic. It was always about him. He was also a sexual psychopath. Dorner's historical information however, indicates that he was not always so self-absorbed. Moreover, he was not a sexual psychopath. Some pages back, people were talking about his psychological makeup, wondering how he managed to get into the service and the pd. I think he was overly altruistic. And that, over time, he became embittered at the unfair world that we live in today.
Racism is toxic. It eats away at the soul. Most of us, however, would never ever even remotely consider doing what dorner chose to do. That's what sets us apart from people like him. And that's what, yes, moves people like him closer to people like duncan.
Still, having read duncan's psych reports, as well as following that case (I have no doubt, you did too), and reading dorner's files and what has been revealed wrt his military history, I see a man who broke, someone who moved to the dark place, and, instead of getting help, chose to engage in evil acts.
Can the lapd be blamed for this? Of course not. Others have encountered racism and not resorted to violent acting out. One only need to read Joe Jones experience ( link ) Moreover, for all we know, some of the wrongs he perceived were just that. Perception, and nothing more.
Importantly, I do wonder, is there a way to recognize this sort of thing in the future? Not from the outside, so much. Rather, can this be used by people to do their own internal checks and balances. I do not know. Yet, it is something that I wonder about.