Posts Tagged ‘evil’
Why Do They Kill? Evil and Terrorism
- December 5th, 2008
Laughing as They Killed“ “They laughed as they killed,” read some reports from the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. I have been unable to verify these accounts but I tend to believe them. Why do humans behave like this? Two vital questions beg to be examined: 1. Why are so many young people so easily engaged swept up into terrorism such that they become mass killers? 2. What will it take to eradicate terrorism and create a safer world?
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Looking at Torture: Accepting Responsibility for Our Own Evil
- November 18th, 2008
Nightmare Portends the Future? Two days after Election Day I awoke from a terrible nightmare. A torturer had just cut off my legs and was forcing me to walk on the stubs of my legs. I woke up screaming. Who was my torturer? Why this dream? Why now? In August 2001 I experienced repeated waves of doom that something dreadful was coming.
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