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After committing a crime, two possible outcomes will appear before the criminal; the success of committing the crime and ultimately not being caught or failure and being caught. Which of the outcomes is best for the criminal, and which is best for the common good? There is no answer to this question however, every person is different, and every mind is unlike any other mind in the world. In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment the main character, Raskolnikov, has to deal with this situation after committing the worst crime imaginable: murder. A desperate young Raskolnikov, poor and starving, plans the perfect crime. Raskolnikov murders an old and loathsome pawnbroker; a woman that no one cares for and that no one will mourn. Raskolnikov makes sure to plan this murder so that there will be no flaws, however as reality is, there will always be a catch. There is no perfect crime. Raskolnikov believed that by killing this woman the world would benefit from the outcome. Is it not right, Raskolnikov figures, for a man of learned intelligence to commit such an offense, to break the rules of moral law if it will benefit humanity? Many however, would follow Raskolnikov, such as two men that Raskolnikov overheard in a bar t