re: #170 stabby

Looking over at the headlines on pjmedia (na I’m not interested enough to actually read the articles) it looks like they’re blaming the shooting on:
a) evil and
b) moral relativism

A is just stupid. Shooting kids is evil, but that’s the event not the cause. It’s a bit like saying “no no no they didn’t die because of guns, they died because they were full of little holes”

B is just another example of using a tragedy to sell your favorite snake oil, like the guy who said it’s “lack of God in the classroom”

Well I’d say that evil can be invoked in as far as Adam Lanza chose an evil path. He wasn’t insane, and knew what he was doing was vile but did it anyways. You can’t use ‘evil’ simply to explain things away entirely, but it does have its place in the discussion. More than most ‘active shooters’, Adam Lanza was simply evil.