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Originally Posted by luciferase75
I believe there to be a baseline for values in society. Some you agree with and some you don't. In the end it's just a baseline, and you take from it what you want. As an inherently good person (not Christian good, just an open-ended definition of good), one can take this baseline and run with it, and mesh well within a given society. There are some, however, that take this idea and turn themselves into well, something like a scene out of the SAW series. Those people are fewer than the others, fortunately, but the element obviously exists.
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Yeah, good point - a kind of baseline or average does indeed exist and we all oscillate somewhere near or far from it.
But heres a question: Does one's open-mindedness really affect what extremes a person is willing to go to? Or would that happen by some other means, be it teachings or chemical imbalance or whatever? I'm just not sure excessive open-mindedness is the culprit when someone does something terrible and freaky; My impression is that it's mostly other elements that drive super-funky behavior. I'd welcome your perspective otherwise, though...