We have become increasingly reluctant to call evil what it is, preferring to explain even horrific acts through trauma and pathology. When suffering becomes an excuse for evil, we dehumanize the very people we claim to defend.
"If we wish to proclaim that Christa Pike was simply affected by her early life to such a degree that her actions are in some way understandable, then we must proclaim that in those acts of abuse that she suffered, she lost her agency."
In an infinite mirror image we then have to trace back every trauma that every one of her abusers had also suffered ad infinitum back to The Garden."
It is un-Christian and ultimately a futile chase always into the past.
As Mary Midgley notes in Wickedness (1984), neither physicians nor psychiatrists ever asked to be burdened with the task of making people morally good. Nor should we expect them to be able to.
I was thinking that they just need to round out all death row inmates with at least 12 Covid 19 boosters. Physical and/or brain death would follow within 12 to28 days.
Today our society does not see sin,evil it’s an addiction or something that justifies the actions of people committing acts of violence, crimes and abusing them selves or others!
The real issue is man’s falling away from God ! We were created to serve God and enjoy Him forever! Most people don’t want to be ruled over, they want to be the masters of their lives and not subject to the creator of all things! There will be a day of reckoning!
Great article. Evil abounds in many people, many who were never victimized. Evil exists separately from victimhood. Victimhood cannot be used as a reason or an excuse to act immortal.
Brilliant piece of molding thinking into a an acute observation that escapes most people. Back in the late 1970s, Alexander Solzhenitsyn warned the the US that they must not allow "legalism" to overtake the genuine application of justice. We all nodded and agreed,....but now its too late. We even treat psychology and psychiatry with reverence and respect, while neither of them are even sciences.
These are great observations that we are living and yes it is our responsibility to find and apply resolutions. At the same time we should never try to resolve one evil with another. Every generation is witness to unbelievable crime, but in each case there is a cause and finding that cause is of greater value to society than dispensing with the perpetrator. We have the capacity to maintain safety in society by removing the perpetrators, even if they are never to experience freedom in the future.
There is no question that our society is full of violence whether it is real or fiction and we promote most of it under the banner of Freedom of speech. But we are all in control of our immediate environment, which is the first step in creating a virtuous Environment that does not promote evil. Our most immediate step is to avoid rewarding those who create evil.
What was the environment of Christa Pike and how many virtuous people may have been able to have an influence on her? We do this with our own children and sometimes have the opportunity to have influence over their friends who are not virtuous. This is where we have to be conscious as Christians, to use the openness of Christ and the help of the Holy Spirit in an attempt to change not only ourselves, but those who obviously need the help of Christ.
In my humble opinion, what is now evil is considered good and what is good is now considered evil. Murder (plain and simple) is being defended and even seen as a solution if the person is mentally ill from past life experiences or they just "snap" because they can't take it anymore. And we wonder sometimes why people become nostalgic for times gone past like the 1950's and perhaps earlier. Those times certainly had their issues, but nothing like we see today. And yes, I would be more than happy to drive a 2dr., two-tone, 1954 Chevy Bel-Air, dress in a tweed two piece suit with a tie and fedora and a pipe to smoke when I arrive home where I can enjoy a nice adult beverage and a newspaper all before dinner.
"If we wish to proclaim that Christa Pike was simply affected by her early life to such a degree that her actions are in some way understandable, then we must proclaim that in those acts of abuse that she suffered, she lost her agency."
In an infinite mirror image we then have to trace back every trauma that every one of her abusers had also suffered ad infinitum back to The Garden."
It is un-Christian and ultimately a futile chase always into the past.
As Mary Midgley notes in Wickedness (1984), neither physicians nor psychiatrists ever asked to be burdened with the task of making people morally good. Nor should we expect them to be able to.
They should have used Mexican fentanyl for the execution, the government has plenty and it is certainly lethal.
I was thinking that they just need to round out all death row inmates with at least 12 Covid 19 boosters. Physical and/or brain death would follow within 12 to28 days.
We live in a SATANIC world where Evil is bad and bad is Evil, this is the view of Peter Thiel of Palantir expressed by himself.
Today our society does not see sin,evil it’s an addiction or something that justifies the actions of people committing acts of violence, crimes and abusing them selves or others!
The real issue is man’s falling away from God ! We were created to serve God and enjoy Him forever! Most people don’t want to be ruled over, they want to be the masters of their lives and not subject to the creator of all things! There will be a day of reckoning!
Great article. Evil abounds in many people, many who were never victimized. Evil exists separately from victimhood. Victimhood cannot be used as a reason or an excuse to act immortal.
Brilliant piece of molding thinking into a an acute observation that escapes most people. Back in the late 1970s, Alexander Solzhenitsyn warned the the US that they must not allow "legalism" to overtake the genuine application of justice. We all nodded and agreed,....but now its too late. We even treat psychology and psychiatry with reverence and respect, while neither of them are even sciences.
Are the black robes of our judicial system becoming the robber barons of our dignity, our humanness?
These are great observations that we are living and yes it is our responsibility to find and apply resolutions. At the same time we should never try to resolve one evil with another. Every generation is witness to unbelievable crime, but in each case there is a cause and finding that cause is of greater value to society than dispensing with the perpetrator. We have the capacity to maintain safety in society by removing the perpetrators, even if they are never to experience freedom in the future.
There is no question that our society is full of violence whether it is real or fiction and we promote most of it under the banner of Freedom of speech. But we are all in control of our immediate environment, which is the first step in creating a virtuous Environment that does not promote evil. Our most immediate step is to avoid rewarding those who create evil.
What was the environment of Christa Pike and how many virtuous people may have been able to have an influence on her? We do this with our own children and sometimes have the opportunity to have influence over their friends who are not virtuous. This is where we have to be conscious as Christians, to use the openness of Christ and the help of the Holy Spirit in an attempt to change not only ourselves, but those who obviously need the help of Christ.
Dear Sarah
Demons
Moral Party Platform Section One
"We know that they are lying,
they know that they are lying,
they even know that we know they are lying,
we also know that they know
we know they are lying too,
they of course know that we certainly know
they know we know they are lying too as well,
but they are still lying.
In our country,
the lie has become not just moral category,
but the pillar industry of this country."
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
https://MoralParty.com/Demons
Mark
If the really dark pay little for their deeds maybe my lesser darkness will go completely unpunished. Might that not be in some hearts?
In my humble opinion, what is now evil is considered good and what is good is now considered evil. Murder (plain and simple) is being defended and even seen as a solution if the person is mentally ill from past life experiences or they just "snap" because they can't take it anymore. And we wonder sometimes why people become nostalgic for times gone past like the 1950's and perhaps earlier. Those times certainly had their issues, but nothing like we see today. And yes, I would be more than happy to drive a 2dr., two-tone, 1954 Chevy Bel-Air, dress in a tweed two piece suit with a tie and fedora and a pipe to smoke when I arrive home where I can enjoy a nice adult beverage and a newspaper all before dinner.