(August 17, 2012 at 9:50 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: It violates the rights of another. We as human beings have a sense of empathy and community. We identify with the suffering of others. Where our actions impact other sentient beings, questions of morality apply. Sometimes these questions and dilemmas are complex but they often boil down to not inflicting on others what we would not want ourselves, else we would be hypocrites.
I don't see why this standard of empathy and community should be adopted over any other. How can you justify that people's rights are even important?
James Holmes acted consistent with what evolution teaches. He evolved from an animal, and when he murdered those people, He acted like one. You can't say he's wrong since evolution made him that way.
