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I find it interesting that in this post-Darwin age there are still those that characterize behavior they don't understand as "evil". As is by some act of "free will" they chose to commit acts that we find abhorrent.
Since it's basically a scientific fact that we have no free will and that he are basically slaves to electrical and chemical signaling within our brains how do you justify having such a backwards, superstitious view of this event? It is really no more his fault he killed children than it is your cell phone's fault it rings at a bad time when you forget to put it on silent. We are basically just machines with no capacity to willfully internalize any arbitrary, superstitious Christian concepts of "good". Maybe we shouldn't criticize folks for being born with whacked out brain chemistry and get a health care system that enables universal coverage of mental health services, but that is beyond the point.
Since it's basically a scientific fact that we have no free will and that he are basically slaves to electrical and chemical signaling within our brains how do you justify having such a backwards, superstitious view of this event? It is really no more his fault he killed children than it is your cell phone's fault it rings at a bad time when you forget to put it on silent. We are basically just machines with no capacity to willfully internalize any arbitrary, superstitious Christian concepts of "good". Maybe we shouldn't criticize folks for being born with whacked out brain chemistry and get a health care system that enables universal coverage of mental health services, but that is beyond the point.