Alan Forrester wrote:

> Suppose that God told you to kill a bunch of people with a boning
> knife, would you do it?

Probably not, because I'm too much of a coward. Like Yonah, I would try
to run away. But if He told me to do something I feel capable of, I would.

> If you just had a sudden feeling that you wanted to kill people with
> a boning knife, would you do it?

It seems rather over-obvious to me that a normal person under normal
circumstances would not have such a feeling.

> I think the answer to all these
> three questions is obviously no unless you already had a set of moral
> ideas consistent with killing people with a boning knife.

This does not explain why seemingly normal people suddenly change their
behavior, for instance, when they are drunk.

I.m.o. people who have murdered should be locked up to protect the
public. Why they did it is totally beside the point. All speculation
about it is useless, because we can never be certain about someone's
reasons anyway.

Mira