Sue His Maker
Wouldn't it be interesting if society could sue God for constructing an imperfect human being? Might there be any sense whatever in a just and sensible divinity permitting creatures to exist who have no saving virtues whatever other than that they exist? Those who prey upon others, who destroy life, who wreak havoc in society and cause no end of misery and agony to the world at large. Those who do so in their small societies, and those who wield great power to evil ends in their larger societies, impacting on the world at large.
Do we not expect parents to be responsible for the characters and values of their offspring? Now that's interesting; we obviously do not, since rarely does society blame the parents of a monster for his or her atrocities. But the very everpresent, omnipotent, omniscient being who so many around the world claim through their various interpretations of the divine will, to be responsible for our presence on Earth; should we not expect better of His creations?
It's all a little silly, of course. How to blame an idea in humankind's mind for the failures of humankind's emotional stability? We are imperfect and horribly fallible as thinking, caring creatures since too many among us are anything but. Society is surfeit with sociopaths and psychopaths whose mental equilibrium is so ill-balanced it flashes into viciously malignant disorder resulting in horror wherever they strike.
As was the case with a criminal named Steven Bugden who murdered a long-time friend because she did not share his romantic feelings. Psychopaths are unable to maintain stable emotional relationships, their personality disorder renders them incapable of empathy or concern or of love for others; they are mired in their own paramount, egotistical needs.
This man had a friendship with a young woman from their teen years until she attended university and he took automotive repair at Algonquin College. They remained friends, but never romantically, although he ultimately envisioned their relationship otherwise. When Angela Tong informed her friend she simply wanted to remain his friend he viciously ended her life, in 1997.
He stabbed her fourteen times in the back and then five times to her head. He stuffed her body into a bag, and hid it behind the hotel where he had invited her to meet up with him. He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison. He claims now to have sustained physical harm because of a malfunctioning piece of exercise equipment in prison, and is now suing for $50,000 in damages.
He claims that prison authorities in Kingston failed to have him attended by qualified medical practitioners. That he lived with pain for two years, until a diagnosis finally indicated he had sustained an inguinal hernia - a protrusion through the groin muscle, requiring corrective surgery. There is a kind of sweet justice here.
One that should not be disrupted by the very thought he entertains that he is due anything from society.
Do we not expect parents to be responsible for the characters and values of their offspring? Now that's interesting; we obviously do not, since rarely does society blame the parents of a monster for his or her atrocities. But the very everpresent, omnipotent, omniscient being who so many around the world claim through their various interpretations of the divine will, to be responsible for our presence on Earth; should we not expect better of His creations?
It's all a little silly, of course. How to blame an idea in humankind's mind for the failures of humankind's emotional stability? We are imperfect and horribly fallible as thinking, caring creatures since too many among us are anything but. Society is surfeit with sociopaths and psychopaths whose mental equilibrium is so ill-balanced it flashes into viciously malignant disorder resulting in horror wherever they strike.
As was the case with a criminal named Steven Bugden who murdered a long-time friend because she did not share his romantic feelings. Psychopaths are unable to maintain stable emotional relationships, their personality disorder renders them incapable of empathy or concern or of love for others; they are mired in their own paramount, egotistical needs.
This man had a friendship with a young woman from their teen years until she attended university and he took automotive repair at Algonquin College. They remained friends, but never romantically, although he ultimately envisioned their relationship otherwise. When Angela Tong informed her friend she simply wanted to remain his friend he viciously ended her life, in 1997.
He stabbed her fourteen times in the back and then five times to her head. He stuffed her body into a bag, and hid it behind the hotel where he had invited her to meet up with him. He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison. He claims now to have sustained physical harm because of a malfunctioning piece of exercise equipment in prison, and is now suing for $50,000 in damages.
He claims that prison authorities in Kingston failed to have him attended by qualified medical practitioners. That he lived with pain for two years, until a diagnosis finally indicated he had sustained an inguinal hernia - a protrusion through the groin muscle, requiring corrective surgery. There is a kind of sweet justice here.
One that should not be disrupted by the very thought he entertains that he is due anything from society.
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