Everytime someone does something inexplicably horrible, like shooting 12 people dead at the premiere of the new Batman movie, or killing students at Columbine High School, or kids at summer camp in Norway, there is public discussion about what made the person do what they did.
People are falling over themselves to try and explain the inexplicable, and blamed are most often things like lack of religious belief, a traumatic childhood and poor socioeconomic circumstances, or mental illness, and any combination of the above. You also get the odd nimwit who will claim this kind of mass killing on evolution, or (since the latest one happened once again in the USA) the teachings of Christianity. Continue reading
