Hi Craig Weinberg Do you know anything about jurisprudence ? It doesn't care if your motivations were good or evil, it only cares if you broke the law or not.
Serial killers are generally thought to be sociopaths, but they don't usually have much success cooking up an insanity defense. They are the mindless, heartless purveyors of cruelty and evil, evil as defined by laws. Jurors and judges under the legal system determine if you break laws or not, not whether your motivation was good or evil, although that could have some influence on the type of punishment. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/3/2013 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-02, 12:13:04 Subject: Re: Re: The evolution of good and evil On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 6:39:17 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: ROGER: There are two opposing forces in the universe, those which enhance life, which we call Good, and those which diminish life, which we call Evil. CRAIG: I can't relate to cut and dried ideas of Good and Evil or enhancing or diminishing of life. It seems completely disconnected from reality to me. If it was that obvious, why wouldn't everyone just do the Good things and avoid Evil things? Obviously our experiences have many layers and qualities which change dynamically. Anything can be interpreted as enhancing or diminishing life. Chemotherapy Good or Evil? ROGER: Good people tend to do good things, evil people to do evil things. The Stanford Prison Experiment proves that this is not true. There may be people who are born sociopaths and born humanitarians but overwhelmingly people's actions are reactions to their circumstances. Chemotherapy is thought to do more good than evil. By doctors trying to cure patients of cancer, not by the cells of the body being poisoned. It sounds like when you say that good enhances life, you are talking about the lives of human beings and not any other species. If pressed, I suspect that good is further defined as that which enhances the lives of human beings which you consider to be good, which will, I suspect, turn out to be those people with whom you personally relate or admire. <SNIP> [Roger Clough], [rcl...@verizon.net] 1/1/2013 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/ePt2Uf7MeNsJ. To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsub...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/eo-BouQWicEJ. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.