Outside The Asylum

I am not sure if I should be glad Trump is ok, or angry that we have raised a generation of gun owners who do not understand that it is the power of the single shot that allows snipers to be so dangerous.  This is the second attempt where the shooter chose a relatuvely low power weapon with a large magazine over a more accurate higher power hunting rifle that can get the job done from outside the security perimeter.

Question from a DM in Facebook: Kant teaches that the ends never justify the means, that we can't do harm to achieve good. Is this correct under Catholic Thinking? My answer: I dabble in philosophy and theology, so you can take what I say with a grain of salt, but here is my answer. As far as I'm concerned- if a philosophical or theological point hasn't been debated for at least 10 centuries, we haven't thought about it enough yet. I would rephrase it as the ends rarely justify the means- usually the means justify the ends. Additional Question from the DM: Are you Catholic, and could you give me an example? I consider myself a Zen Catholic. I started out as a cradle Catholic, wandered away in my 20s, after learning the value of paradox all the parables in the Bible suddenly made sense so I returned. Have been married for 25 years. The ends justify the means in the protection of the common good- the classic is the assassination of a totalitarian dictator, or ...