This chapter has contributed to this discussion of the dark side of creativity
by considering the influence of creativity’s boundlessness in the context of human beings’ interactions, particularly crime and terrorism. It has considered the meaning of boundaries or lack thereof and concluded that each community needs to agree to boundaries that are pro-social. The section on motivation acknowledged that while there will remain some differences in perspective, there are creative means of engaging debate and sharing experience that may even use dark creativity as a redirected vehicle for positive change. Ethics are a key consideration in these debates, but it needs to be understood whose ethics are being questioned, discussed, and approved and to what end. The development of social wisdom was proposed to be a common means of enabling systemic thinking and coherence for contexts of opportunity or threat, but it is important to keep the questioning process alive through social engagement or else the wisdom fades. The discussion of methods of countering antisocial creativity saw that a theme is developing in the context of crime prevention and community safety of engaging in the criminal’s perspective, using approaches such as the “crime lifecycle” and C4. In the same way that defender and
offender perspectives may be applied in role-play experiences to inform investigation and decision making, it is argued that both the light and dark sides of creativity are necessary for wisdom. Instead of developing only the lighter side of creativity, we must provide some balance by knowing the darker side, acknowledging that not everyone is suited to do so, though. Nevertheless, those who can use these methods of investigating the threats of “what will?” should be better positioned to forecast consequences and propose solutions using the threat itself as the means of developing a wiser future.