When a criminal defendant in a court of law is being assessed to determine whether he's legally insane, he's asked if he knows right from wrong. Notice that he's not asked whether he knows what the law says is right or wrong, he asked whether he knows right from wrong. Yet here's a list of what most people in Congress don't know is right or wrong: 1) They don't know when life begins 2) Since they don't know when life begins, they don't know that a woman who aborts her child is committing murder. 3) They don't know what marriage is 4) They don't know why apes can't turn into people 5) They don't know why promiscuity is wrong 6) They don't know why homosexuality is wrong And many of them say that right and wrong doesn't even exist! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! So by their own definition of insanity, most of the Congress is legally insane.
Thank you, Carico. You just gave a perfect example of one of the deepest and most troublesome problems with the democratic system. Ladies and Gentlemen: He is allowed to vote.
Yup. And those who admit they don't know right from wrong are the last people to claim they're insane when by the legal definition of insanity, they are legally insane.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
:roflmao: But I agree with Carico a little bit, it's impossible to figure out whether someone is insane, because there is no objective morality.
No, but "we, the society" can set standards of morality at that particular time in history, then test the subject and pronounce him/her insane or not. And, as you might guess, that's exactly what we do. That also points to one of my pet peeves; Present day historians writing books about, and often condemning, past events or people using present-day ethics and ideals. Baron Max
First of all, Carico: Thank you for the laugh. I have not laughed that hard since I was a little boy. Seriously, thank you. Onto the guy who, surprisingly, isn't the biggest idiot in this thread, Baron Max! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I have to ask...would it fit into your "pet peeve" category if I, say, condemned the police in Alabama for spraying black people down in the streets just because they were black? Or what if I condemned lawmakers for making it illegal for a black person to sit at the front of the bus if a white person needed their seat? I'm just curious.
