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Lily wrote
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Mog wrote
Now, I'm reasonable enough. You think its at least ethical to alter the brain chemistry of those diagnosed psychopaths that want their brain chemistry altered?
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Actually, I am nothing like a fundy-- especially the caricature that you have in mind. But I am not much like the real thing either. I see that you really believe what you are saying but only a profound ignorance of history could lead you to so blindly grasp at "better living through medicine".
God does not create evil. If he did, you could not thwart his purposes. It is a silly argument that is ok, I suppose, while sitting around your dorm room at midnight solving the world's problems but it is meaningless in real life.
Are there really 50 million psychos in our midst? Somehow, I would have supposed I would have noticed...
As far as altering the the[sic] brain chemistry of psychopaths? It depends entirely on whether or not the person is a real psychopath and whether the limits on who can be treated can be so tightly drawn as to preclude altering the brain chemistry of people whose thoughts the powers that be don't like. Otherwise, the wise person remembers that hard cases make bad law.
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Whether God does create evil or not (He admits doing it by the way), our vaunted free-will or any other ability on our part to disobey Him thwart His purposes by definition. Since God does create evil (even if it is only by drawing a behavioral line that we are not to cross, that line being the only reason that the act would be wrong) we are duty-bound to act as contrary to that evil as is possible.
God might hypothetically say "henceforth, until the world passeth away, thou shalt not stare cross-eyed at the bark of the yew tree". That would be the creation of evil by God, where it hadn't existed before. Real examples of this kind of evil abound. If an act is wrong "just because God says it is wrong", that act is a God-created evil.