The aborted bombings in Britain raise the question of how men trained as healers could be converted to indiscriminate killers.
What political, ethnic and/or religious grievances would persuade them to turn from saving lives to taking them?
The British equivalent of the Hippocratic Oath, as formulated by the General Medical Council, obligates physicians, among other duties, to:
“Make the care of your patient your first concern.
“Protect and promote the health of patients and the public.
“Never abuse your patients' trust in you or the public's trust in the profession.”
How do doctors and medical workers go from treating diseases and wounds to packing cars with gasoline, gas cylinders and nails to explode and kill or mutilate as many innocent human beings as possible?
How can they be transformed from serving a society to trying to destroy it and in the name of what sacred cause?
Even more horrific is the possibility that some or all came to Britain as sleepers with the intention of terrorism, multitudes of Manchurian Candidates waiting to strike.
Their ineptitude argues against that, but it certainly is possible.
In any case, the fact that they failed doesn’t erase the haunting questions. Whatever answers we get will tell us painful things about the human condition in the 21st century.
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Hard to believe doctors willing to commit mass murder? Here's a guess:
These doctors may consider Western Culture to be a "social disease" (see Benjamin Barber's Jihad vs. McWorld).
Add to that a deep visceral resentment toward intelligent, assertive women who should never have been taught how to read and write, and you have the makings a nutcase ready to murder.
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