Who do you Hold Responsible?
When an act is committed, who should we hold responsible? Should we blame the person who commits the action? Or the ideology/belief that leads him to do it? Or the tools/environment that made the action possible? Can you honestly say you’ve never pointed at different sources, based on the situation or your moral/political orientation? Let’s check it out. Take the periodic gun killings that happen in America. Is the problem the killer, who post facto is almost always found to be a guy with a mental problem? Or is it the ease of procuring guns in “the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past five years”, as the Onion describes it? So why is it so easy to procure guns in the US? Because (brace yourself) it’s there in the constitution! Then again, as Scott Adams says : “The Founders wisely made it hard to change the Constitution, but they did give us the tools to do it. And we have changed it i...