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Bulger Wasn't Hardwired to Be a Murderer. No One Is
Townhall.com ^ | September 24, 2015 | Jeff Jacoby

Posted on 09/24/2015 12:57:07 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 09/24/2015 12:57:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Depp is an idiot liberal. Just mho.


2 posted on 09/24/2015 12:59:00 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Kaslin

Jacoby is pathetic. Bulger loved to kill. He loved strangling women. Let him move into your house Jeff....see how that works out for you.


3 posted on 09/24/2015 1:04:32 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Kaslin

And Himmler was kind to children and animals.

So what? Doesn’t excuse or negate the pain they deliberately caused.

Bulger did indeed have a choice - he could have been like millions of other men and chosen to commit NO murders, NO crimes. But he didn’t decline, did he? He deliberately chose to NOT follow the rules.

And there’s Hollywood, always ready to make a sympathetic movie about some creep who deliberately chooses to cause misery - no movies about the ordinary good people who lead honest, crime-free lives. Way to go again, Hollywood, keep glamorizing criminals.


4 posted on 09/24/2015 1:08:22 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: Kaslin

And that is why prison used to be known as a penitentiary, where men who did wrong went to reflect on the price of their evil deeds. This is what bleeding hearts don’t understand: that society has an obligation to mete out this measure. Like Judge Smails said in Caddyshack... “I’ve had to send boys younger than you to the electric chair... didn’t want to do it; I felt I owed it to them.” It’s funny because of the basis in truth - to absolve the perpetrator by blaming external factors simultaneously denies the nature of man as a divine creation with free will.


5 posted on 09/24/2015 1:08:37 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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“It made my heart ache, you know, to see all these beautiful black men in the joint. The warriors should be out there helping the masses. I felt that way, I was real naive. Six weeks I was up there and I talked to the brothers. I talked to ‘em, and ... THANK GOD WE GOT PENITENTIARIES!” - Richard Pryor


6 posted on 09/24/2015 1:09:38 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kaslin

Bulger was like all sociopaths, he used whatever technique necessary to get his way. When charm was required, he used charm; when violence, he used violence. And one gets the impression that he particularly enjoyed violence.

That doesn’t mean that he was unredeemable, because we always have to believe that people can be converted and live; but he was fundamentally someone who, both because of his choosing and because of a fundamental disposition, abandoned the moral universe and lived solely for himself and his own priorities and preferences - and would have been very hard to reach for conversion.

Johnny Depp did a great job at playing him, btw. The FBI agent (who had somehow been charmed and conned by Bulger into basically abandoning his own moral and even legal compass and adopting Bulger’s defense as the goal of his life) was also extremely well portrayed.


7 posted on 09/24/2015 1:10:30 PM PDT by livius
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To: Kaslin

Some people seem to be hard wired to LIE!


8 posted on 09/24/2015 1:10:34 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Kaslin

There is no hard wiring. Stupid concept. Stems from a materialistic understanding of the human organism.


9 posted on 09/24/2015 1:11:38 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: trisham
Depp is an idiot liberal. Just mho.

Liberals have long made an effort to "see" the "good" inherent in everyone, and are often shocked to discover that no, some people really are bad.

Conservatives generally assume that humans are inherently evil and will do evil things unless you teach them better, and then keep an eye on them just to be sure.

One philosophy is much more adept at dealing with the real world than is the other.

10 posted on 09/24/2015 1:14:54 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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There is no hard wiring. Stupid concept. Stems from a materialistic understanding of the human organism.

Someone needs to let the gays and pedophiles know...

11 posted on 09/24/2015 1:16:39 PM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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"There's a kind heart in there," he said. "There's a cold heart in there. There's a man who loves. There's a man who cries. There's a lot to the man."

When there is trauma during the early years of a child's development, due to parental failures,the child can have unresolved pain for years that leads to ambivalence toward his caretakers that can later be easily transferred to others in later life. This leads to oscillations between love and hate, dominance and submission, and good and bad behavior toward others.

12 posted on 09/24/2015 1:22:12 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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I’m puzzled that people are disagreeing with Jacoby’s conclusions. If Mr. Bulger were “hard-wired,” then he had no personal agency in has actions, and he bears no personal guilt.


13 posted on 09/24/2015 1:22:23 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I want to live my cat's life.)
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To: dfwgator
“It made my heart ache, you know, to see all these beautiful black men in the joint. The warriors should be out there helping the masses. I felt that way, I was real naive. Six weeks I was up there and I talked to the brothers. I talked to ‘em, and ... THANK GOD WE GOT PENITENTIARIES!” - Richard Pryor

I just checked to verify that Richard Pryor really said that, and that it wasn't one of his jokes or roles from a movie. Nowadays people put stuff on the internet all the time that isn't really true.

Most of the hits come right back to Free Republic, but I think I did find the original source for that quote.

Yeah, apparently Richard Pryor really said that. More commentary at the link.

I asked one, "Why did you kill everybody in the House?" He says, "They was home."

14 posted on 09/24/2015 1:25:03 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Straight from the horse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7DhFhzkjcA


15 posted on 09/24/2015 1:27:29 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DiogenesLamp

Yes.

Oddly enough, Bulger isn’t happy with Depp’s attempts to humanize him:

http://www.justjared.com/2015/09/19/whitey-bulger-is-not-happy-with-johnny-depp-black-mass/


16 posted on 09/24/2015 1:30:15 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Tax-chick

very good point there...

I will absolutely see this.

However, on a personal level and this man, I don’t care how nice he was or whether or not he lived by a code, or cried.. big freaking deal.

He was no hero.. He was an evil pr*ck to do what he did and that truly is black and white to me.

Hero? that’s a soldier.. And I love cops, because they take down these evil bast*rds.

.....and God made a liberal..... thought about that video the other day.


17 posted on 09/24/2015 1:35:09 PM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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To: trisham

“Depp is an idiot liberal”

Repeat 4 times, rinse and repeat.

I came to L.A. from Boston

Whitey is PURE evil and a sociopath. If he did anything good, it was a cover to fool the people.


18 posted on 09/24/2015 1:36:25 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Kaslin

Good article!


19 posted on 09/24/2015 1:37:43 PM PDT by jocon307
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Johnny Depp said derp derp derp. Hollywood’s so chock full of spoiled rotten fools.


20 posted on 09/24/2015 1:39:34 PM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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