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]]> The Sinner and the Fool https://www.firstthings.com/article/1994/10/the-sinner-and-the-fool https://www.firstthings.com/article/1994/10/the-sinner-and-the-fool Sat, 01 Oct 1994 00:00:00 -0400 When we read of a murder in the newspapers or hear of one on television, we often read or hear that it was “senseless.” Observers offer this characterization not only of drive-by homicides or the methodical shooting of strangers by a crazed killer on a crowded subway train, but also of the first-degree murder of a businessman by his greedy partner, or the enraged slaying of a wife by her jealous husband—even of murders committed in the course of robberies and rapes. Indeed, we hear of almost any murder that it was “a senseless slaying,” “a senseless act,” an example of the “senseless violence” that keeps threatening society.

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