On 3/26/2015 Pashmina said: On 3/26/2015 Justina rae said: Evil certainly comes out of rigid belief systems and not just those halfway around the world. I feel sorry for any children who are taught to believe certain things from when they are very young. They don't know any other way. It is ingrained. These children become intolerant adults and learn to hate those who are different.
That is crazy talk. Evil comes in different forms, from all walks of life. Some even believe that certain people are born evil, not made from their environment at all.
I certainly don't think that is "crazy talk"... you said it yourself, it comes in different forms and from all walks of life. Why did McVeigh and Nichols blow up the Federal Bldg in Oklahoma City? Because they were angry at something they didn't agree with and with people who believed differently than they did in what was right and wrong. And what they did was evil - or as Webster's puts it - morally reprehensible.
The chief conspirators, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, met in 1988 at Fort Benning during basic training for the U.S. Army.[17] Michael Fortier, McVeigh's accomplice, was his Army roommate.[18] The three shared interests in survivalism.[19][20] They expressed anger at the federal government's handling of the 1992 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) standoff with Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge as well as the Waco siege—a 1993 51-day standoff between the FBI and Branch Davidian members which began with a botched ATF attempt to execute a search warrant leading to a fire fight (it is unknown whether ATF agents or Branch Davidians fired the first shot) and ended with the burning and shooting deaths of David Koresh and 75 others.[21] In March 1993, McVeigh visited the Waco site during the standoff, and then again after its conclusion.[22] McVeigh later decided to bomb a federal building as a response to the raids.
McVeigh initially intended only to destroy a federal building, but he later decided that his message would be better received if many people were killed in the bombing.[