Seven years pass and the anniversary of 9/11 again challenges those with faith in the human person to try and understand how and why people can willingly seek to exact such death and destruction on those whom they've never actually encountered. Blog your thoughts about this: why are humans not only capable of such violence, but also why do they actualize this capability against others?
Humans are capable of such violence through several means. One is a religious one; I am a Catholic, and I believe strongly in the idea that God gave us free will. This complete freedom allows us to choose our own path in life (and incidentally contradicts the idea of an omniscient God). Some people label the terrorists as insane people, and in some cases it may be true, but overall I think that they just believe that what they do is right. In their worldview, the only way to make their point is to commit such acts. They use these acts to terror; one could say it is a dramatic form of bullying. They seek to inspire so much terror, panic, chaos, and general disorder in order to pressure their targets to subject to their demands. In certain cases, some do not have any aim, and yet still terrorize; those people are, in my opinion, psychopaths. I would also say the ease with which one can acquire weapons is also a reason. Overall, I think that humans are capable of violence because we have freedom, and certain people actualize it because of their belief or because they just do not have control
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