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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (58437)	9/17/2002 4:32:38 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"Actually, that is not true. People frequently know they are doing wrong, from a strictly moral perspective, and have considerable anxiety about it, but do it anyway, hoping to resolve the issue in their favor eventually" WHAT is not true? This? "If it occured, then it was "justified" at some level."

To: Neocon who wrote (58437)	9/17/2002 7:46:18 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

For people with Tourettes it is reported to be akin to a sneeze. I can't imagine what it would have been like for these people 100 years ago or so, let alone 1000 years. Compulsive hand washers and other people with neurotic disorders also report a transcendent level of drive involving something perceptually outside of themselves that they are truly unable to resist. Society is much more judgmental about individual responsibility than the perceptual bases would suggest is reasonable. Does this mean that society doesn't have any rules or personal responsibility? No. But I think a compassionate understanding of circumstance is not without justification and is certainly the more intelligent approach. [EDIT:I think this can apply to groups of people as well. For instance, with the Moonies or other cultish religions, I think there is a loss of individual will in favor of group values. Countries experience the same mass psychosis as well...]