Originally Posted by
Beelzebuddy
Trying to recast familicide as some kind of objective result of socioeconomic factors instead of taking the stated justification for the acts by the murderers at face value does sound an awful lot like apologetics, actually.
I think you should learn the difference between acknowledging the materialist origins of human behavior and idealist moralizing.
Seriously. Simply because you can't separate your emotional response from rational thought doesn't mean that those of us who wish to achieve a deeper understanding of behavior approve of murder. I'm certain it feels great to be righteously indignant at the murder of a teen aged girl, but your indignation serves no other purpose than to stoke your own sense of moral superiority.
Furthermore, I don't think you actually know what the hell apologetics means. I see you and others bandy that word about as if it's equivalent to "approves of Muslim Terrorism". "Explanation" does not equal "justification", "analysis" does not equal "approval".
Years ago, mental illness was treated as a moral failing. People who studied it were, in your opinion, simply apologists?
Trying to recast human actions as anything other than the result of physical laws and objective material conditions is little more that idealism.