At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
In contrast to earlier reporting, apparently the perpetrator had no psychiatric history.
This is nauseating. That guy is one sick waste of flesh.
Many Nazis or Japanese soldiers did far worse between 1935 and 1945, yet they apparently weren't psycho or whatever else. I guess this is kind of topic, but I'm pretty sure anybody could do that.
What is for me completely disturbing is that you cannot really hate that kind of guy. Most likely, his brain is not working as it should and he couldn't be considered an human being anymore. So he did that, that's horrible and he probably deserves to die, but he's already not living per se.
As far as I find this event sick and disgusting, I still find it less disturbing than stories about mass-rape led by a 15year old dude. When the first is ****** because he's crazy, the second is ****** up because he has no sense of reality.
Coming from cultures that trained them to think in terms of "untermenschen," during a prolonged and horrific war wherein killing had become a commonplace...
Yes, the potential to be an amoral killer resides in all of us. I would argue that, for a large majority of us, the number of factors that have to align to shift us into "amoral killer" mode is fairly large. Witness all of the veterans who cope with bouts of PTSD after participating in "kill or be killed" situations -- even when they were themselves threatened, there is still some sense of remorse at having taken life.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
Sane or insane, lock him up and throw away the key.
Death is a release, not a punishment, and some horrible torture would say more about us than him.
"If it wears trousers generally I don't pay attention."
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An enemy that wishes to die for their country is the best sort to face - you both have the same aim in mind.
Science flies you to the moon, religion flies you into buildings.
"If you can't trust the local kleptocrat whom you installed by force and prop up with billions of annual dollars, who can you trust?" Lemur
If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter. Winston Churchill
An enemy that wishes to die for their country is the best sort to face - you both have the same aim in mind.
Science flies you to the moon, religion flies you into buildings.
"If you can't trust the local kleptocrat whom you installed by force and prop up with billions of annual dollars, who can you trust?" Lemur
If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter. Winston Churchill
Good idea , you have said you want to leave britain and do medicine elsewhere .A 20 year old would be on average a great candidate for organ donation. The remnants that can't be reused can then be discarded.
Have you considered China as a nice place to practice where you can harvest organs from criminals ?
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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