Miscellaneous Thoughts Part 1

• Morality is not relative. Morality is based on actions. If you kill someone the victim is dead. If you hit someone the hitee can feel it.
• You cannot reason with a madman swinging an axe. Not only do you waste your time and the mad man's time but you can also get serious hurt or even killed.
• Poverty does not cause crime. If this were true then the reverse would be true and there would be no white collar crime.
• Having a good self-esteem does not necessarily mean your a moral person. Hitler, Stalin and most social paths have good self-esteem.
• Intelligent people can commit crime. Ever heard of a criminal genius?
• Evil is real and exists. The Holocaust is evil. Stalin is evil. The 9/11 tragedy is evil. Evil exists cause man has free will.
• Technology is not good nor bad. It's is how a person uses it. A pencil can be used to write with. It can also be used to stab someone with it.
• Mankind is imperfect and the inventions they create will also be imperfect. For example, the Titanic.
• Religion and science can co-exist. Both belief systems are basically have truth as their foundation. Dr. Michael Guillen says in his book Can a smart person believe in God? that to be a balanced person you have to have binocular vision: One eye sees the world through religion, the other through science. An interesting book.
• Persistence and ingenuity are a criminals best asset. This is why most defense systems like fire-walls or even military defenses fail. Eventually the criminal will find a weakness in the system being that the system is imperfect.