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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
Bear in mind that I'm arguing that choice is not in fact the determinant. So which destructive behaviour patterns do psychiatrists look at say "There's nothing wrong with that guy. He just happens to be evil."?
While of course Christian theology like that which formed J.R.R. Tolkien's worldview disagrees as a nonchristian, I'll just say that actions by themselves are not immoral. If they were, you could call storms evil.
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Evil and immoral are philosophical words, not observable states of nature. It doesn't belong in medical talk any way.
I guess I kept translating evil into criminally sane. I'm sorry for that.
Involuntary manslaughter exists for those that kill people but didn't mean to. If actions alone weren't criminal, then there would be no concept as that.