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Then there's this:
Good people turn bad. Bad people turn good. How much bad is too much from which a person can be redeemed? How much good, done after bad, is enough? I'm not asking those questions individually about Osama Bin Laden; their answers in his case are indisputable.
Character isn't scripted; Americans often have difficulty thinking about human beings outside of trying to place them by category. While other countries had cultures that preceded their own reflections by thousands of years, Americans have had our perceptions of life not only influenced but formed by electronic portrayals of it.
The world is in dramatic flux almost everywhere, over a spectrum of arenas, from the most personal to the most political. There don't seem to be easy decisions to make anymore.
Can these people be released? Would that help?
