Yes, Ted Bundy deserved scorn and judgement.

So do I, when I act like an a**hole, which on occasion I do. Sometimes, I need the scorn of those around me to alert me to the fact that I am acting like a jerk. There is nothing wrong with appropriately directed scorn. It can be a healthy human response and it serves a necessary function. That's why humans evolved the capacity for scorn.

Let's look at self-respect. I checked a few dictionaries and came up with the following. Self-respect means a sense of one's own dignity that motivates a person to have a self-imposed standard of how he will behave and how he will tolerate others behaving toward him. Having self-respect means a person won't do certain things because he considers them to be unworthy of who he is, even when he could get away with doing them and profit by doing them. It means he won't accept certain treatment, even if he must die to defend himself from it, because he feels it is incompatible with his dignity.

Bundy didn't seem to think that any behavior was unworthy of him. So I don't think he was ever able to develop any solid self-respect. Having self-respect is like having a strong back. It's the result of self-directed effort. No one can give it to you.

T. Bundy spent his earliest years around a grandfather who was a monster. So, yeah, there's reasons for him being as he was. Could he have chosen to turn out other than as he did? I have no idea.

Were Bundy alive today and serving out a prison sentence, would he deserve any respect. Our correctional system purports to accord all inmates with respect to the extent that that is possible in the context of how they are behaving today. Sam Berkowitz seems to be on quite good terms with the folks around him. He has been given constructive duties to perform that he carries out conscientiously. You can Google up a website that his Church friends have organized for him and view videos of interviews he's given. He comports himself with good humor and an apparent measure of maturity. Is that just a fiend making the best of his limited options? Possibly not. I do think there are some disturbed minds that require the constraint of institutionalization to find their moral bearings.