I dunno what word to call it so i called it “Moral blue-shifting”.
I thought maybe to post at the religion catagory,
then i rememberd that morality and justice are social more then religious.
Ok, here my theory is simple:
Evil that changes to become good will be more good then what was always good (moraly).
Logic behind my theory:
A preditor or paracite in society will understand weaknesses and vulnerabilities well, but this understanding can be later used to protect the weaknesses that you understood so well.
Once they understand devious evil plots, they can spot them within others and warn the un-suspecting.
Example: Former hackers working for the police to catch hackers online, or former cheaters working in casinos to help catch cheaters.
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This phinominon bred a very unique character in one of my fictional books, a super-preditor that was very powerful and intelegent that then became more peaceful then the weak or non-preditory.
Sadly, im guessing that “moral blue-shifting” doesnt happen very often
On TV id seen a program about justice systems in other countries. I think that only a small fiew viewed criminals as people who needed to be re-habilitated instead of merely punished.
Its a complex subject.
There’s a famous story about an English slave trader who found God and help abolish the slave trade. He also wrote the hymn ‘amazing grace’. He was a real sob before he found God. So it does happen, but probably not very often.
Criminal justice systems often move through stages as a state matures and the state establishes itself as a mature institution to be respected for itself, It moves from eye-for-an-eye, to measured punishment, to rehabilition. That includes capital punishment, the mark of a truely mature and civilised nation is the abolishment of the death penalty.
There is no such thing as an evil. person People may do things that you call evil, and perhaps there is a definitive evil but any evil that we may find is merely an imperfect reflextion of that true concept.
The sad truth is that slavers were, and are normal people who are trying to make a living. For an American history class I watched the movie Amistad. Which was a great film no doubt about slavery, freedom, and excellent acting from everyone involved. Then when I went back to class to discuss the movie our teacher informed us of a rather disturbing fact that the real man who is portrayed as the main character in the movie was faced with so little option when he returned to his war torn country in Africa that he eventually became a slave capturer himself. The one man who worked so hard for freedom for the people on the Amistad became part of the slavery problem. And that is the sad truth about what evil is. Its the ugly head on the coin of human nature.
That’s an interesting theory. The thing about the death penalty is that its supposed to be a deterrant for criminals. In societies that execute people quickly work as an active deterrent, a message that gets out to other would be criminals (for executuion they would be the most extreme criminals.) The problem with that system is the possiblity of executing innocent people and perhaps the crimes for which people are executed for become to prevelent (such as being killed for stealing a loaf of bread or something). The opposite side is what America has, which is a long process of appeals and red tape that by the time the execution happens no one rememberss why the criminal is killed. Therefore its not a deterremt.
Its certainly a shaky issue, but whether that marks a mature society or not makes a very simple stab at a very compex issue.
