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Sidebar: Individual Rights Vs. Societal Rights
In the wake of the tragedy at Columbine High School, people naturally try to determine
who is to blame in an effort to prevent future tragedies. After all, something went
dreadfully wrong. At stake in the raging debate over culpability is the timeless
question of individual freedoms vs. societal protection--concepts that divide entire
nations.
Opinions vary as to who was responsible for this most recent tragedy. Some say it
occurred because other students shunned the two teenage gunmen. Others blame it on
violent video and computer games. Some believe schoolteachers and administrators
should have known of the potential danger and prevented it. Still others say the
parents should have known about their children's preoccupation with guns, bombs and
killing and dealt with it before the tragedy could have occurred. Then there is the
choice the two gunmen themselves made: They chose an evil course of action and carried
it out.
Finally, the Bible reveals the existence of a "spirit who now works in the sons
of disobedience" (Ephesians 2:2). This invisible power is at work in our societies
and "deceives the whole world" (Revelation 12:9).
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