Many times after people commit horrendous crimes we get a clear indication of their great disconnectedness with reality. But what happens when a mass murderer is a well-educated, well-read individual who fully understands his actions and shows no regret, not because he’s completely deranged, but because he has fully weighed the implications of what he’s been taught throughout his life? Such is the case with the infamous mass murderer, Ted Bundy, who confessed to killing over 30 people. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘ethics’
The Evolutionary Implications on Human Dignity
Saturday, August 20th, 2011The Ultimate Source of Evil
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011Atheism tells us that evil is not a real thing. It tells us that there is really no right or wrong, that there is really no way we ought and ought not live, that all of it in one fell swoop is nothing more than relative notions and ideas and are simply matters of personal preference. 
But, how would we object to a man who would rob us, hurt us, or do something as simple as lie to us? Do we not expect the truth? Do we not expect others to more or less coalesce to this common ideal that we intrinsically expect everyone to know about. What notion then of personal preference being our guide? The reality is that there is an objective transcendent ideal, and it must be outside the mind of man. What, after all, can be deemed to be antithetical to how things ought to be if we reject the notion that things ought to be a certain way. (more…)
