(June 7, 2011 at 11:13 am)Epimethean Wrote: I do not see his inability to kill being analogous to his lack of desire. I have no idea whether he wants to kill everyone, but it is impossible for him to do so. The two things, intent and ability must be kept separate until there is an action. Judging the inaction must only be that there is inaction: Its cause may be one, or the other.
Even though a man has a gun in his room, he is unable to kill his wife and children with it. Desire has everything to do with what one does with power when they have it.
This man picks up the gun and goes out to hunt a rabbit. He is successful because he has not made himself incapable of killing rabbits.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
