kennas said:
I think if we think about it a little bit more, we'll find that humans are animals too, and we also work off instinct. Everything we do in life is based on hormones designed to assist us to survive.
I've gone down this path in previous posts but I leave it to you to consider it a little bit more. What actually makes us act the way we act? What drives us? Our thoughts and emotions driven by hormones stimulated by the environment and nature resulting in actions.
You were right, this guy is an animal, just like the rest of us. Some of us are in situations where we can control ourselves better. Either as a result of our genes, or environment. It's nature and nurture. And then there are hormone and chemical imbalances causing people to act irrationally.
The only way this guy could act in this way is by either of the above. He's a human animal and should be punished in this world.
Hi folks,
..... and yes, yes, yes, Kennas ... !~!
Please bear with some introductory groundwork here,
in order to establish a foundation, for comment on the
subject of this thread.
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If we pursue your line of thinking, we can refer to Harold
Anson's work, where he looks at animals and man, soon
after Creation.
He says in the sense that an animal is sinless (even today),
then man was also created without consciousness of right
or wrong (sin).
"Man's Fall came with the emergence of the faculty of moral
choice and the act of choice leading to a sense of sin and
failure to evolve; the life of sex, the relation to the Divine
mind and to other creatures, becomes explicit, where before
it had been mechanical."
"Original sin is the desire of the race NOT to evolve,
to remain where it was" ..... this natural regression to
animalism is within us all and it is the very reason, why
good people (as shown in this thread) revolt and make
fierce war on those who revert to animal pleasures, like
this killer has done.
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Now, to this killer's future ..... Julia has already
alluded to what he will likely face in prison, at the hands
of the inmates, with the blessings of the prison guards.
As regards to earthly justice, this should be left to our
justice system, whether we personally see it as adequate
or not ..... (as you will see, it matters not, anyway.)
Some systems seem to mete out a fairer form of justice
than others, but at the end of the day, we must trust the
justice system, that we have in this country.
Looking back to OT times, the monothetic God did not deal
out eveyday justice to individuals, instead that was left to
the lawmakers and kings of the day and for the most part,
they did a good job .....
..... and so it is today, justice should be left to our leaders
and the lawmakers, as it does not really matter, because:
A Christian perspective tells us, that even that treatment in
gaol will only be a SMALL indignity compared to what he will
face, in years to come .....:
Matthew 18:6
"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe
in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged
about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of
the sea."
Clearly, anybody reading the passage above can see,
that this killer's destiny is sealed in continual punishment
reserved for the worst violators of God's law, regardless of
what happens in the justice system ..... !~!
So, despite our emotions upon hearing about such crimes,
revenge is not ours take, so let's leave it to those that
have been appointed as lawmakers, to express our rage .....
..... and even if they fail in our eyes, please be comforted
by the passage above, this killer WILL SUFFER for his sin !!!
Blessings upon you
yogi