{"id":50230,"date":"2013-08-06T08:31:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T16:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50230"},"modified":"2013-08-06T08:33:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T16:33:54","slug":"ariel-castro-is-a-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50230","title":{"rendered":"Ariel Castro Is A Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Pragertopia: “Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapping monster, tries to justify himself with a litany of excuses: he\u2019s sick like an alcoholic; he has an obsession with pornography; he was abused as a child; his ex-wife ruined him.”<\/p>\n

There’s nothing unusual in what Castro did with his excuses. We all seek to justify our behavior in line with our values and we don’t rest until we can rationalize everything. <\/p>\n

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>: “As a general principle of life, we are what we do. If we do overwhelmingly good things, we are good; and if we do monstrous things, we are monsters. Perhaps most people are in the middle, and cannot — and should not — be easily judged. But if Ariel Castro isn’t a monster, then no one is a monster, and no one is good.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Pragertopia: “Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapping monster, tries to justify himself with a litany of excuses: he\u2019s sick like an alcoholic; he has an obsession with pornography; he was abused as a child; his ex-wife ruined him.” There’s nothing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50234,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50230\/revisions\/50234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}