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To: Gene Eric

Not quite.

Everyone has souls and consciences. We are norn with a sin nature which means what comes naturally to us is doing bad things rather than good things, which is why we spend decades teaching kids how to get along and be nice, rather than how to screw others (as that comes naturally).

Free will ultimately lets people decide how they are going to behave, and if they want to behave badly it starts damaging their conscience which knows what tehy are doing is wrong. Rationalization is the second greatest human drive, so evil can be rationed away as good and good, evil, when the conscience has been damaged/destroyed. Ultimately the conscience doesn’t work anymore. It has been seared, fried, burnt out.

That is how this guy can become what he’s become.


47 posted on 07/07/2014 12:53:06 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

norn = born


48 posted on 07/07/2014 12:53:34 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

>> Everyone has souls and consciences.

Of course — I spoke metaphorically.

>> We are norn with a sin nature which means what comes naturally to us is doing bad things

Harm is not only dispensed by humans, but we are increasingly distressed when it is — the betrayal of moral expectations.

Humans have been blessed with a Compass to evade the harm too easily inflicted by a godless existence.


57 posted on 07/07/2014 5:46:20 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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