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The problem of evil can become so convulted when we are taking about a massacre (the deadliest of its kind in the United States) commited by a madman.  To what extent is a mentally ill individual responsible for his own actions, and to what extent is he free to make moral decisions?  Here's how I look at it.  You and I have a choice to make: Do we go ballistic, or do we contain our rage (if, in fact, we possess rage)?  The decision is like a walk down a straight, well-lit hallway, with the unlocked door easily within sight. For a man afflicted with mental illness, the door leading to a morally upright decision---- the door leading to an escape from his unbridled impulses exists, but, it's locked, and he must travel through a maze, in darkness in order to get there.   The key lies somewhere on the floor, in the dark.  The only way he will find it is if he happens to stumble over it.  So he is responsible for his actions, but not in...
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