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Originally Posted by TheByzantine
It appears to me I am now being told there are no evil people, only evil acts. I am incredulous. The acts do not occur in a vacuum. They are the work of choice, unless the person is unable to know right from wrong.
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I think this discussion is getting to the point of really upsetting people, much as I like this kind of illumination. I think Right and Wrong are not as clearcut as we might wish. I think that distinction, which is made in law, is pretty faulty, and is only made because they could not figure out any better way to handle very badly disturbed people. And I do not think that people make conscious "choices" nearly so obviously as all that. How many of us here are aware of feelings that seem to drive us, so much so that sometimes we almost cannot tell what is real and what is not?
BTW, it seems to be well-known that Hitler, for instance, was brutally beaten by his father when he was a child. Irrelevant? Maybe not.
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Even so, when I see a picture of man that killed 70 million people, I will not be thinking the world needs more people just like him. I will not be back.
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I do not think anyone here feels that the world needs more Hitlers. No one here has said that. Indeed, it is because we don't want that, that we want to comprehend why people do things and how to change that. And I hope you do come back. All have a contribution to make, to better understanding. More discussion can mean more understanding. Less probing will not.
(I did put a trigger icon on the initial post.)