I'm surprised that Manson is not on this list. I think he'd have to be included. If you've ever seen any interviews they've done with this guy there is not a grain of remorse whatsoever in his body. He'll tell you that he didn't kill enough people before they caught him and if he ever gets out he'll kill again. I think Manson is the poster child for evil.
Ah, the New York Times discovers what Christians and Jews have known for thousands of years: evil exists. How novel.
Anti-life, anti-freedom..."may be" wakeup call?
And it was at this point I concluded I need read no further.........BS meter on full tilt!
"Most psychiatrists assiduously avoid the word evil, contending that its use would precipitate a dangerous slide from clinical to moral judgment that could put people on death row unnecessarily and obscure the understanding of violent criminals."
Heaven forbid that we should call a spade a spade. There is evil in the world because the Evil One so desires to attempt to thwart the designs God has made. But, of course, these people don't believe in God or Satan, either.
That's what they'd like us to believe, I'm sure, as it excuses their malignant narcissism. But not everyone has committed evil acts. Far from it.
This statement is the crux of the problem in modern society. People tend to fudge the word and acts of evil. If I help an elderly or handicapped person across the street, I have no reason to hide my actions. And while most people may not do the act, the majority would approve of the act. Likewise for something simple and nice as giving a seat to someone or holding open a door. However, any act that must be done in secret so that society does not find out is the the start of evil. If we cannot - as a society - totally agree that some actions are evil and some are not, or agree on the concept of evil, than Satan is laughing. The elderly couple from Florida just arrested I believe in Idaho, for torturing the children they adopted - this doctor from the quote above would not say they are evil? The author Dean Koontz, tends to write about evil characters and one in particular was the main villian in his book Intenisty. The best line in the book, which has stayed with me for years, is near the end when the protaganist states there is no reason for human evil, only excuses. We make too many excuses for evil acts these days and it will come back to bite us all.
There are some animals that need to be denied oxygen.
Isn't guilt or innocence more a moral judgment than a clinical one anyway? And even if guilt admits of some degree of clinicality, isn't the sentence itself devoted solely to the moral dimension? So why the fear?
Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."
The article shows just how ignorant of Biblical teachings the author and these researchers are. There are over 300 references to evil in the Scriptures. Most refer to EVERY person, because the sinner is an evil-doer in the eyes of a holy God. You don't need to be a Manson or a sadistic child molester to merit God's punishment as an evil-doer. Without Jesus, we are all condemned. Because of Jesus, we can repent and "go, and sin no more," in His words. Forgiven, we can enter heaven. Don't compare yourself to Charles Manson as your moral standard. Compare yourself to Jesus. It keeps you humble.
Among themselves, a few forensic scientists have taken to thinking of these people as not merely disturbed but evil. Evil in that their deliberate, habitual savagery defies any psychological explanation or attempt at treatment.
Oh please, so if I humanely kill people I'm not evil. Anyone who murders should be killed. If they were disturbed perhaps that should be noted for the sake of their family but that shouldn't change their punishment.
you may be interested in this.
How anyone can continue reading this beyond the above statement is beyond me. They are drawing a moral equivalence between beheading and putting panties on someone's head, having a dog leash around their neck, having a dog bark at them or stacking them up in a naked human pyramid.
Write wrong or indifferent, I refuse to read this tripe beyond that statement.
And immediately thought of this -
As part of an extensive, in-depth interview, a trained examiner rates the offender on a 20-item personality test. The items include glibness and superficial charm, grandiose self-worth, pathological lying, proneness to boredom and emotional vacuity.
What do you people think? Maybe? Could be?