(December 16, 2013 at 3:15 am)JohnCrichton72 Wrote: .
Of course this requires every person being totally great at parenting or at least us having adequate fail-safes in place if some aren't, and a means for psychological analysis and identification of high-risk individuals, which currently we don't have. It is a nice thought, but it's just not achievable, not in my lifetime anyway.
Besides, killing him is the last resort, of course, and surely I empathize that people are often pidgeon-holed into positions like his in lots of ways, but we can't blame society entirely for him being in that 'last-resort' position. People grow up with great upbringings and kill, maim, torture or harm others.
If it's a choice between innocent kids, for instance, and his life, I'll take his any day of the week, if it should come to that black-and-white scenario. Since his uprbringing shouldn't destroy the lives and opportunities of those who have barely had one yet.
I do agree that there are more angles to morality and peoples' mental state than a lot of theories suggest, but then, I've not had the upbringing of a prince and I still hold myself generally accountable for my state of mind and personal choices.
Come the moment, should it come to life or death, I would consider myself to have no choice but to stop him any way that fitted the gravity of the situation. And I'd probably feel guilty for it for the rest of my life. However, a preferrable route would be treatment.
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So you would agree with me if I posited that we have built a society that relies on sacrifice, we accept our own ignorance and inability to help said "Dr.No". We have created a, or contribute to, a societal construct that WILL fail somebody and force us to kill him before he kills others.
We, everybody, has a societal responsibility to deal with this (being the benefactor's) and it should be top of the agenda.
I kinda feel a little dirty, we aren't cutting their hearts out on a sacrificial table but we aren't far off it.
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Of course. Our society sucks, we haven't got the means (or more aptly the common desire) to fix problems at their roots and do what's best for the many rather than what suits the interests and desires of the few.
There's a hundred different things I can think of that we can do more honestly and more aptly; food distribution, legislation creation, childcare, education.
Our society is geared towards money and greed rather than social harmony on the extent we're talking about.
It's an irony of humanity that the most successful and socially influential people are usually psychopaths that couldn't give half a shit about the society they impress on.
