But Mom!I only killed him because I was trying to be a good person!

        Fyodor Dostoyevsky(F.D) had a harsh life which clearly resonates with Crime and Punishment.First off, F.D. went to school in the urban St. Petersburg which was  filled with poor people(sound familiar?). Second,after his wife died, F.D. decided to take care of her son from her first marriage as seen by R-cubed in the novel.The third and most important was that F.D was caught and exiled for being part of The Petrashevsky Circle which was a literary group of progressive-minded people(Thanks Wikipedia!). He was sent to Serbia and was forced to do hard labor for a couple of years. After he got out I presume that he must have had many thoughts about how good it would feel to hurt the people who wronged him. After all, who wouldn't? They were just thoughts,but maybe he started to think about people whose thoughts led to actions, aka: R-cubed.(I similarly have thoughts like that.I love pasta so much that I wonder:Are there people who love it and eat it so much that they turn into noodles?So as you can see, the great F.D and I are on the same wavelength).
        Now as to the case of whether a crime is a crime if no one finds out....The definition of a crime is a "grave act against morality" or an "unjust,senseless,or disgraceful act". Neither of those definitions, or any definition you can find, talk about people finding out in order to make it so. Saying something isn't a thing or saying that it doesn't exist just because humans aren't involved is giving too much power to humans. An act committed is still that act,no matter what justifications we try to make.This all goes back to the "if a tree fell and no one heard it, did it make a sound?" argument. Just because humans didn't hear it doesn't mean that the animals didn't. Just because we didn't hear it doesn't mean that that tree is suddenly insignificant,unable to create a sound or fall under the rules of science.This all kind of relates to R-cubed,who after listening to the student in the bar trash the old woman,excuses his actions by thinking that it's o.k because he isn't the only one who doesn't like her.Humans need to come off their pedestal and realize that things exist even if they aren't perceived by us.So gurl, quit tryin to justify it,what you did was hella-rude!