Tack
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- Mar 5, 2005
Hmm... You bring up some good points... We can't exactly know why some people are the way they are. No one can ever truly understand the inner workings of another person. Are people born with a strict set of principles, or are those moral imparted by those that surrounded them? Or in the case of persons of good heart, do they discover the evils in society early enough to use the knowledge to strengthen their own values? What is it about the emotional construct of the human being that can drive a person down criminal path?
Personally, I can't say that I believe it's evil, because that would be too simple, and it's obvious that mankind is rarly simple. There have been accounts of scientific evidence that a criminal mind is physically different from a moral mind, being more elongated and oval in shape than circular, but there's no proof. Maybe people commit crime because 1) they feel it gives them a taste of power - power over life and death, or some sense of control over their own lives, 2) they're scared - for example, a murderer may believe that they've witnessed death at its worst, and they can take comfort that their own death will not be nearly as terrible, or 3) it's fun - there is no underlying cause.
Of all three, I hate to think of the last as a possibility, because if people on such a large scale are able to throw out their empathy and sympathy so completely as to actually enjoy watching other people suffer, then that IS evil.
But we're left without simple answers. Though we might think that we're big players on our own little stage, we're just little players when compared to the whole of the world.
Personally, I can't say that I believe it's evil, because that would be too simple, and it's obvious that mankind is rarly simple. There have been accounts of scientific evidence that a criminal mind is physically different from a moral mind, being more elongated and oval in shape than circular, but there's no proof. Maybe people commit crime because 1) they feel it gives them a taste of power - power over life and death, or some sense of control over their own lives, 2) they're scared - for example, a murderer may believe that they've witnessed death at its worst, and they can take comfort that their own death will not be nearly as terrible, or 3) it's fun - there is no underlying cause.
Of all three, I hate to think of the last as a possibility, because if people on such a large scale are able to throw out their empathy and sympathy so completely as to actually enjoy watching other people suffer, then that IS evil.
But we're left without simple answers. Though we might think that we're big players on our own little stage, we're just little players when compared to the whole of the world.