Did you seperate humans from the killers and prey sentence for some particular reason?
Role and function in the natural envronment. Humans may be predator and prey.
Humans don't find anything shocking about animals hunting their prey and they would hate other humans to interfer with the natural way of the world.
The issue is not about what humans do or do not find shocking. We are an inseparable part of the natural world, a set of conditions that shapes us, our minds, thoughts and behaviour. We respond according to our own condition, physical and mental in relation to the conditions of our environment.
Yes I concur, humans have a whole range of attributes and behaviours, which is possible to change by a whole range of affecting influences.
Change happens, different people have different ideas on what course to take, government, economy, religion, ideology, etc, and this itself is a source of conflict.
People are called psycopaths if they cause harm or they express their viewpoints about how they want to see done to other people. Hitler who was called a psycopath was capable of love ...to love his own and those who agree with him.
So?
People who have no empathy or feelings who may also be "wired" differently can still live in the world and follow rules. They can intellectually understand even without any 'empathic feelings' that it would not be in their interest to cause harm to others, also understanding that there is NO reason to cause harm.
A lack of empathy, amongst other brain conditions, has consequences regardless of intellect:
On the neurology of morals
''Patients with medial prefrontal lesions often display irresponsible behavior, despite being intellectually unimpaired. But similar lesions occurring in early childhood can also prevent the acquisition of factual knowledge about accepted standards of moral behavior.''
Prefrontal Cortex damage:
''The 20-year-old female subject studied by Damasio et al. was intelligent and academically competent, but she stole from her family and other children, abused other people both verbally and physically, lied frequently, and was sexually promiscuous and completely lacking in empathy toward her illegitimate child. In addition, the researchers say, "She never expressed guilt or remorse for her misbehavior'' ''Both of the subjects performed well on measures of intellectual ability, but, like people with adult-onset prefrontal cortex damage, they were socially impaired, failed to consider future consequences when making decisions, and failed to respond normally to punishment or behavioral interventions. "Unlike adult-onset patients, however," the researchers say, "the two patients had defective social and moral reasoning, suggesting that the acquisition of complex social conventions and moral rules had been impaired." While adult-onset patients possess factual knowledge about social and moral rules (even though they often cannot follow these rules in real life), Damasio et al.'s childhood-onset subjects appeared unable to learn these rules at all. This may explain, the researchers say, why their childhood-onset subjects were much more antisocial, and showed less guilt and remorse, than subjects who suffered similar damage in adulthood.''
God has His reasons imo which you don't agree with.. I think God has faith many 'normal' people don't have to behave like psycopaths even though some do.
It's not a matter of what I 'agree with' but the relationship between one set of values and another set values. The bible itself describes what its God values in terms of morality, yet the bible itself describes God trampling all over these very same values...which presents a contradiction. There lies the problem.
