Loughner’s horrible actions can be linked to the influence of leftist ideology.
Progressivism widely teaches that human life has no intrinsic value. Through liberal sentencing of convicted criminals, it teaches that committing horrible crimes such as killing other people will likely bring minimal consequences. In this way, liberalism encourages the sociopath to kill.
Progressivism is founded on the absurd belief that certain people can be given the power to give and to take away the rights of other people. This principle confirms to the sociopath that he is morally free to kill other people as he chooses.
Perhaps most significant is the fact that leftist thinking is by nature incoherent, a condition resulting from the chaos of relativism.
Relativism, the bedrock of progressive ideology, asserts there is no ultimate truth, allowing leftists to engage in their common practice of asserting one thing today and then completely contradicting themselves tomorrow. (Like schizophrenics do—and it is the basis for the democrats ignoring the violence in their own rhetoric.) Take it a step further and you have insanity, then chaos and destruction.
Loughner merely followed progressive ideology to its ultimate conclusion.
Loughner’s horrible actions can be linked to the influence of leftist ideology.
Progressivism widely teaches that human life has no intrinsic value. Through liberal sentencing of convicted criminals, it teaches that committing horrible crimes such as killing other people will likely bring minimal consequences. In this way, liberalism encourages the sociopath to kill.
Progressivism is founded on the absurd belief that certain people can be given the power to give and to take away the rights of other people. This principle confirms to the sociopath that he is morally free to kill other people as he chooses.
Perhaps most significant is the fact that leftist thinking is by nature incoherent, a condition resulting from the chaos of relativism.
Relativism, the bedrock of progressive ideology, asserts there is no ultimate truth, allowing leftists to engage in their common practice of asserting one thing today and then completely contradicting themselves tomorrow. (Like schizophrenics do—and it is the basis for the democrats ignoring the violence in their own rhetoric.) Take it a step further and you have insanity, then chaos and destruction.
Loughner merely followed progressive ideology to its ultimate conclusion.
An interesting and ultimately logical analysis of the shooter in AZ. Good post.