Hatred of Evil People, the Last Prejudice?

Consider the following example: Mother Theresa. What if I told you (when she was alive), I wanted her put to a slow death? Or locked away and attacked daily by rape gangs? Pretty terrible, no? Yet in the US, that is what some people say should be done to criminals.

Is the hatred of evil people the last remaining human prejudice? Is it anymore moral to hate them than it is to hate children, or animals or so-called good people (like Mother Theresa)?

Now don't get me wrong. If someone is a danger to society, I think they should be segregated from the rest of us. But then, I think we should try to rehabilitate them. And they should be imprisoned for life only if there is no hope of rehabilitation in their case.

What do the rest of you think?

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I liked M.Begin myself. ANs then I also liked the lately assassinated A. Sadat also.

 

well jim i think you are that special kind of special and the world would be great if everyone was like your mr. rogers self......
the rest of us live in reality and get angry when are loved ones are tortured and raped and want to see justice in a kind of revenge way when that happens.

 

If you say so. In Begin's time the military used rubber bullets at Palestinian demonstrators.

 

I like Syskil and Ebert's reviews of those good ole' Irish movies. They gave two thumbs up for the Patriot Games.

 

there are no evil people. even unseen spirit people. evil is not a state of being nor a form of existence. it is a pattern of behavior. the same pattern of behavior that is also called aggressiveness. it goes by other names, like bigotry and belligerence, and has many forms, such as greed and every form of prejudice.

but there is no such thing as an evil person, or alignment by birth, such as so called demons, where they to be an actual thing that exists.

unseen things, just as the vast and diverse physical universe, owe nothing to what anyone or any belief might claim to know about them.

evil happens, people engage in it, some people wallow in it, but no one 'becomes' it, and no one and no thing, is born into it.