Open Eyes, I really appreciate you. Your struggles to make sense of what happened to you are so thought-provoking.
For me, evil will always be part of the theology I was taught. Often, I was told I was a bad boy. My actions were sinful. Sin is a form of evil. There are consequences for being sinful. Upon death, I would be joining others who had rejected God through sinful behavior.
I do not understand Dr. Somov to be asserting the actions of those who lack empathy are appropriate. They are not. The world is less safe because of the actions of the unempathetic. I understand Dr. Somov to be telling us we have choices and the choice we make has the potential to affect how safe the world will be.
If we choose to view those who lack empathy as evil and demonize them as inhumane and incapable of learning to be more empathetic, the world will be less safe.
If we should choose to be compassionate, and maybe at some point try to forgive the behavior of those who acted without empathy, it might be possible that remedial empathy training may allow the world to become more safe.
Somov is talking about a way to reach the unsafe and trying to rehabilitate them:
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Seeing crime as self-regulatory, as a means to one and the same universal end of well-being, as opposed to being an end in and of itself, is essential for understanding rehabilitation opportunities. Such instrumental view of crime allows a rehabilitation clinician to see crime as but one of the many possible strategies for meeting one’s needs and, therefore, allows a clinician an opportunity for exploration of psychologically and physically healthier, legally safer and socially sanctioned alternatives to meeting one’s needs.
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http://www.eatingthemoment.com/360-d...cceptable.html
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Research indicates that prison educational and vocational programs can improve behavior, reduce recidivism, and increase employment prospects upon release.
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http://reentrypolicy.org/Report/Part...hHighlight15-3