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{{quote|'''Perp''': "It was a crime of love!"
'''Jake Peralta''': "Cool motive, still murder."
|Jake Peralta, ''[[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]]''}}
 
Here you have it. A villain or a hero in a [[Jerkass]] moment claims they are like this because of something that happened in their past. A [[Freudian Excuse]] can justify their actions and make them sympathetic. Surely that means they have the high moral ground.