Whatever the reason, the feeling was always there at the back of my mind. In college I studied philosophy, and then in grad school went on to psychology. I was more interested in psychology you could experience and live than I was in abstract or theoretical psych. In studying the human mind I was even more convinced of what I had theorized in earlier life. If there were such things as werewolves, and they did go around killing and maiming, it would be due to their human natures being unleashed and not to a wolf's nature.
Animals kill for food.
They kill to protect themselves, their territory, or their group. Animals do not seem to kill for pleasure or 'just because they can'. Granted you have rabies, and even some animals that seem to come close to killing for its own sake, but there is one species that excels in killing, and that is humans. In my studies and readings I found out that there are things scarier than any werewolf. Serial killers for example.