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[RainCityGirl]

On 3/27/2015 Sister Golden Hair said:

My favorite quotes of Mark Twain:

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

It was Abraham Lincoln, though various forms of the quote have been attributed to others. The one most often given credit for it is Lincoln. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to speak out and remove all doubt." It's a variation and modernization of something that appeared on the Old Testament.

[TaxyLady]

On 3/28/2015 Lila Belle said:

On 3/27/2015 RainCityGirl said:

People need to take responsibility for their own actions and stop trying to blame it on some nebulous, imagined entity.

I definitely agree !

I agree too. We should stop making excuses for evil behavior when the person is ultimately responsible. Before someone performs an evil act, they have had lots of time to turn their thoughts to good or continue to dwell on evil. Eventually when their thoughts are evil, they develop a depraved mind. Just doesn't happen overnight. I bet there are plenty of people out there who think evil thoughts but have not acted on them. yet....

[Sister Golden Hair]

On 3/28/2015 RainCityGirl said:

On 3/27/2015 Sister Golden Hair said:

My favorite quotes of Mark Twain:

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

It was Abraham Lincoln, though various forms of the quote have been attributed to others. The one most often given credit for it is Lincoln. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to speak out and remove all doubt." It's a variation and modernization of something that appeared on the Old Testament.

Many have put their own words to this quote.

[SydneyH]

What he did was evil, but it's beginning to sound more like a crime of opportunity. The flight was less than a 2 hour one, there is no way he could have known for sure the pilot would leave the cockpit.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-bewildering-crash?mbid=nl_032715_Daiiy&CNDID=19989802...

[hckynut]

I believe evil exists. Like pern ""I know it when I see it"".

[emmysmom]

On 3/27/2015 KittyLouSoutenu said:

On 3/27/2015 beammeupscottie said:

On 3/27/2015 KittyLouSoutenu said:

On 3/27/2015 beammeupscottie said:

On 3/27/2015 KittyLouSoutenu said:

The answers on this thread are what happens when you try to attribute a single cause to a particular result.

Some things, and this includes the definition and causes of evil, are varied and complex.

Well said. I agree whole heartedly.

Kitty/Scottie Hug!!!

Awwww, we are SO CUTE!!!

Precious!

[AngelPuppy1]

Evil is very much alive and thriving -- unfortunately! When I see all the stories on t.v. and in the paper, it actually makes me so sad and frightened. It truly is getting worse and worse. Not only the world-wide picture, but right next door to you, right in your own back yard. It's a moral decline. Evil is getting stronger and stronger. So much violence -- when there is just no reason for it at all. No respect for each other. No respect for life. No respect for authority or law enforcement. People really do get numbed out from seeing so much evil and violence and they become accepting of more and more as just being normal. Everyone is bombarded with it --- in the movies, t.v., music, sports figures, etc. It's everywhere. I think some people are just born evil. Some people do have mental problems. But it cannot all be attributed to that.

[Qwackertoo]

I agree AngelPuppy1, people seem to becoming more & more desensitized with every passing year. The abuse of little children, animals, fellow students, you name it . . . too many times just too horrifying to even imagine their victims suffering. Punishment has all to often become too lenient and slow in coming . . . perhaps harsher punishment that came quickly would slow this seemingly steady increase in violence. What we're doing now doesn't seem to be working.

[TaxyLady]

On 3/31/2015 AngelPuppy1 said:

Evil is very much alive and thriving -- unfortunately! When I see all the stories on t.v. and in the paper, it actually makes me so sad and frightened. It truly is getting worse and worse. Not only the world-wide picture, but right next door to you, right in your own back yard. It's a moral decline. Evil is getting stronger and stronger. So much violence -- when there is just no reason for it at all. No respect for each other. No respect for life. No respect for authority or law enforcement. People really do get numbed out from seeing so much evil and violence and they become accepting of more and more as just being normal. Everyone is bombarded with it --- in the movies, t.v., music, sports figures, etc. It's everywhere. I think some people are just born evil. Some people do have mental problems. But it cannot all be attributed to that.

So True!

[Pashmina_1]

On 3/31/2015 Qwackertoo said:

I agree AngelPuppy1, people seem to becoming more & more desensitized with every passing year. The abuse of little children, animals, fellow students, you name it . . . too many times just too horrifying to even imagine their victims suffering. Punishment has all to often become too lenient and slow in coming . . . perhaps harsher punishment that came quickly would slow this seemingly steady increase in violence. What we're doing now doesn't seem to be working.

True and a part of that desensitizing is people claiming things are not getting worse, that things are still the same way they've always been, that times were not any better in the past than they are right now. They just can't see the change but it's there nonetheless.