The author critically examines the concept of “motive” in extraordinary human actions like murder and suicide, using the Siya Goyal case as an example. He argues that motives are often misleading and superficial, merely triggers rather than fundamental causes. Drawing from Coleridge, he posits that true evil is frequently “motiveless malignity,” stemming from mental disease, not rational aims. He criticizes the justice system's failure to recognize this and activists' tendency to attribute convenient, singular motives to complex issues, thereby misunderstanding deeper psychological realities behind such acts.