Many are academically smart but most are socially really stupid, which is why liberals have degrees but cannot recognize obvious social patterns and are easy to manipulate.
This picture is quite self-explanatory why the games went downhill. That studio in that picture actually looks like real game nerds.
The current AssCreed studio look like bunch of smelly activists...
When you are young, a social interaction is new experience for you. Eventually you realise that people follow a certain pattern of actions and it gets boring over time.
Criminals get this sense of freedom because they have jumped the moral boundary set by society and feel like they do whatever the phuck they want.
Normal people follow rules...
Hitler was Catholic, although he had more agnostic beliefs. He didn't loath Christianity, mainly due to historical reasons - the First Reich being based on Christianity.