Maybe he's just a psychopath and feels nothing. There are people in this world who are dead souls. Whether one believes in "evil" or not, this is its origin.
Truth.
Unfortunate, but truth nonetheless.
Maybe he's just a psychopath and feels nothing. There are people in this world who are dead souls. Whether one believes in "evil" or not, this is its origin.
[MENTION=4598]hush[/MENTION], I don't understand. Are you proposing that we get rid of prisons and that we allow citizens who threaten other citizens at gun point to roam freely in society? Education is good and can help the effort against crime, however, in the case the member outlined I would be surprised to learn that the violator was unaware that it was illegal to threaten someone at gun point and that the consequences would be prison time if caught. He made a decision aware of those facts so he should be prepared for the consequences. If laws are incorrect there are channels for their correction which should be used. Society does have a responsibility to improve fairness however, it does not override the individual's responsibility to act within the law. Some of society's unfairness is in fact caused by these people who deliberately flout the law. In everything moderation is key, which is the reason for my definition which implies that we all have a part to play in creating fairness. Balance is important. It is very easy to feel so sorry for the perpetrator's circumstances that we forget that they are adults, responsible for their own choices. Also, as good as rehabilitation is, training children as responsible citizens is even more effective. A look at why society is increasingly failing to do that is needed. I suspect the problem is that we don't know how to treat each other with respect and we don't want to make the effort. It is popular to blame lack of education and poverty however for most of history people have been poor and uneducated and many such societies did not have soaring crime problems. What they did have was a sense of belonging and a desire to preserve that.
Norton, hush: I honestly think that part of the reason people commit crimes after a certain point is that they've decided no one cares about them anymore. No one's going to get torn up about it if they do something wrong, and people have written them off- so why should they give a crap?
What do you mean? The benefit of most crimes are only good for the short term. W/o a way to improve your life you have to find some way to get the day to day essentials.@Hoggle : Yes, that's why I said 'after a certain point'. The motives are almost always 'good' the first time around (at least re: robberies), but after a while...
Norton, hush: I honestly think that part of the reason people commit crimes after a certain point is that they've decided no one cares about them anymore...
perhaps fairness is how the weak pressure the strong to do its bidding?If we evolved from nomadic hunters, and our bodily systems are still hardwired that way, then where does fairness factor in with nature?
If we're all born different from each other and into different circumstances, unique, then isn't inequality inbuilt?
And even when efforts are made to made the circumstances more "fair", we're still all different from each other, so wouldn't inequality still be inbuilt?
What examples of fairness and inequality are there in nature?
perhaps fairness is how the weak pressure the strong to do its bidding?
Maybe.
What examples of the weak pressuring the strong to do its bidding are there in nature?
We don't teach people the right things. We don't adequately teach them how to survive, or how to care for one another, or how to open one's eyes to the reality of a fellow human being's condition. What we don't have is a society that places emphasis on the right values, on truly becoming better people.
These people never had a chance.
Norton, hush: I honestly think that part of the reason people commit crimes after a certain point is that they've decided no one cares about them anymore. No one's going to get torn up about it if they do something wrong, and people have written them off- so why should they give a crap?
brite:
Nature is not fair; Nature is completely amoral.
brite:
Nature is not fair; Nature is completely amoral. Our entire moral conscience is our sentient Empathy telling us that our natural instincts in certain situations are wrong. Moral sentience may have evolved naturally, but it puts us at odds with natures rules. I want to help the sick, the weak, the old, the unfortunate. Nature wants them dead.