For BrAnon
BrAnon, I'm glad you put these things in. The further definition of ethics hit on the parts that I've been thinkging of but can't quite articulate.
I have a great book at home on evil (can't remeber the title right now)...
It is fascinating and very enlightening, i read it following the Columbine incident. But the upshot is that pretty much every criminal sees what they did as something they had no choice in doing, or were forced to do, or were justified in doing. THEY don't see it as evil, themselves. They're victims, on the other, hand DO experience it as evil.
Now, I don't want to get all THAT dramatic about this topic. But my point is - they (BFCC) probably do not see what they did as wrong (or unethical)- although we do. And we don't see what we are doing as wrong (or unethical)- but they do. I guess the true definition of right and wrong can only come from society as a whole ... in the context of the times.
(example: some men feel it is their right to beat the daylights out of wife and kids, seriously believe it a right of a husband. Some consider it to be wrong, but do it anyway. Society on the whole, here and now, considers it wrong. This has not always been true. This is not true in some societies today)
I think that what we want is to tell the truth and have society (state of CO) define right or wrong (BF County - to be or not to be). I think we feel they were lied to when making this decision initally.
Also, I, personally, think almost all lies are unethical - even if the goal is well intended - that truth IS right.
By WW
BrAnon, I'm glad you put these things in. The further definition of ethics hit on the parts that I've been thinkging of but can't quite articulate.
I have a great book at home on evil (can't remeber the title right now)...
It is fascinating and very enlightening, i read it following the Columbine incident. But the upshot is that pretty much every criminal sees what they did as something they had no choice in doing, or were forced to do, or were justified in doing. THEY don't see it as evil, themselves. They're victims, on the other, hand DO experience it as evil.
Now, I don't want to get all THAT dramatic about this topic. But my point is - they (BFCC) probably do not see what they did as wrong (or unethical)- although we do. And we don't see what we are doing as wrong (or unethical)- but they do. I guess the true definition of right and wrong can only come from society as a whole ... in the context of the times.
(example: some men feel it is their right to beat the daylights out of wife and kids, seriously believe it a right of a husband. Some consider it to be wrong, but do it anyway. Society on the whole, here and now, considers it wrong. This has not always been true. This is not true in some societies today)
I think that what we want is to tell the truth and have society (state of CO) define right or wrong (BF County - to be or not to be). I think we feel they were lied to when making this decision initally.
Also, I, personally, think almost all lies are unethical - even if the goal is well intended - that truth IS right.
By WW