Pure Evil

[leefer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Atkins

Along with the rest of your cronies..lets hope there is a hell.

[flammableBen]

lets hope there is a hell.

What sort? She was a born again Christian wasn't she? I think most religions allow for some sort of atonement, otherwise once you'd done the slightest thing wrong nobody would bother any more.

[leefer]

Wasnt slightly wrong though Ben....

[BANGKOK RED]

The human mind is a very complicated piece of kit and therefore prone to all sorts of glitches.

A friend of mine is a fully qualified psychiatric nurse, he has some stories to tell.
 
He once told me a story of an absolute stunning women with a marvelous intellect that he and a colleague took on an outing once. By all accounts they all had a great day with no occurrences to the point where he was taking a liking to her.

He was beginning to think of her as a normal person until, on the bus that they where in on the way back to the hospital, a baby cried/screamed.

A that point this woman freaked and lunged towards the baby in an attempt to break it's neck to "stop that fucking awful sound that is so disrespectful to the other passengers on the bus" (Her words). It took two full grown and trained men to restrain her until a sedative could be administered, thankfully she got no where near the kid.

What really freaked my mate out, who does have quite a bit of experience, was her response to her reaction. She apparently genuinely though that because the baby was so rude to make such a noise that it deserved to have his neck snapped and even more disturbingly, that every person on the bus would appreciate her for doing so. She just could not understand what she did wrong.

I am blabbering a bit, but the Manson family along with the likes of the west's does give some food for thought.

[reeves4england]

Wasnt slightly wrong though Ben....

As Ben said, if she's a born again Christian and there is a hell in the Christian sense, she isn't going there.

Obviously, it's horrific what she did though. I can't imagine a single thing that would make me want to take somebody else's life, or how people can be so consumed by such a crazy view on human life. I guess that makes what BR says all the more interesting - you never can understand the way other people think.

[flammableBen]

Wasnt slightly wrong though Ben....

I was approaching it more from a religious perspective, which is a bit of an outside one for me.

It is intriguing though. If somebody has denounced their own crimes and changed enough to want to try and come to terms with what they did (not saying that was the case with this bird because I don't know enough), do you still want them to be punished after death in the big unknown?

Personally I don't believe in anything after death, yet do find the whole moral maze which comes with such beliefs fascinating. Is killing someone for a reason you believe in ok as long as the society about you believe it was the right thing to do, whilst if you do in a cause where the majority think it's wrong it is wrong?

How about indirect killings? The growing and peaking of unthoughtful consumerism by the western world over the last 60 years must be responsible for uncountable deaths. Are we responsible for them because we enjoy the benefits that the lifestyle has bought us?

These are the thoughts which keep me up at night. Not because I'm scared of some holy consequences, but because we're actually unavoidably close to those we condemn, sometimes by the very means of condemning them ourselves.

Sunday wine is good. I must be close to rambling 1000 words.

[Ginginho]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Atkins

Along with the rest of your cronies..lets hope there is a hell.

And after all that we still named a stand after them, sheesh.