The Concept of Good and Evil

When 48 Hours started their show on the Virginia Tech massacre they started talking about the gun the murderer used. The show went into what type it was etc. I am sorry, but it was not the gun's fault. The gun did not make the killer use it in his rampage. But that is the way the main stream media treats evil. It is not the person doing the action that is responsible it is X--whatever X is. X caused him/her to do the violent act. The person is not held accountable for his actions. It is the violent video games and or movies that caused his behavior. It is because he was abused. It is because he was picked on in school (the press is already reporting that the Virginia Tech killer was shy and was picked on in school. Like who hasn't been picked on when you went to school?)

There are two potentially dangerous and wrong concepts that the secular-progressives (sp) have about human nature. The first is that evil does not exist in reality only in the abstract. That there is an explanation for evil. This is definitely incorrect and shown by the Virginia Tech massacre and 9/11. The correct view of human nature is and most mainstream religions agree on this is that people have both good and evil in them. We choose which course we take in life. I believe that human nature is 10% very bad (Hitler, Stalin, serial killers, mass murders), 80% medium good, 10% very good (Mother Teresa, Buddha, Ghandi, etc.). It's like the sps completely ignore the 10% very bad part (although the drive-by-cloned-media who mainly is sp love to report it then excuse it.) It's funny when the sps say mankind has no evil in him but then blames society for a killers actions. If that premise is true (which it isn't) then how does a good society do evil? That just does not make sense.

Then there is the belief that you should act on your feelings. Well, feelings are not rational and moral. If you feel you have been wronged or persecuted like the Virginia Tech murderer felt in his video tape then you act on them. That leads to more bloody violence.

Since we don't let felons have guns legally maybe we should not the other potentially dangerous people have them legally either. If you are psychotic and the voices are you telling you to kill people--you should not be able to get a permit for a gun. The same for sociopaths and people who belong to hate groups. Psychotic people who are in a mental hospital and then are released with anti-psychotic drugs should not be allowed to own a gun. They could forget or not to decide to take the drugs. Sociopaths are a different story. This is a functional disorder therefore they are not put in mental hospitals. Also, they are very hard to detect unless they commit a crime. As for people in hate groups unless a person belongs to a group like the KKK or an Islamofacist group he is hard to detect. The only other way to detect a hater is if they document it. Like Hitler did before the Holocaust. Of course there are privacy issues (like doctor-patient confidentiality, the ACLU saying you cannot put hospitalized psychotic people on lists like they protested convicted child molestors listings in a database on the internet) and there is the issue that the very bad people will always be able to get a weapon.