On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:02:42 -0600, Gruss Gott wrote: > Of Mice and Men? Yeah
I hope you can figure out how wrong the following is on your own. > For example, are the bombardiers who dropped bombs on Germany evil > because they knowingly killed civilians? Most would say no. > > What about the cop who shoots first and asks questions later? Also > no. Maybe bad judgement, but not evil. > > I would even say that some serial killers aren't evil, just demented. > For example, I remember a story about a guy who turned himself into > the police before he ever killed anyone - he said he knew he was about > to. After lots of study, the docs gave him the job as the state > executioner of Ohio, I think, and now he's a healthy member of society > because he gets the killin out of his system. > > Then there's people like Hussein's sons who were clearly evil. > > The summary is, just because the guy was knowingly involved in some > evil enterprises doesn't mean he was evil as I defined it. It does > mean he was guilty of poor judgement, and therefore deserved the death > penalty. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:146011 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
