Q&A: Are the wicked more righteous than the greatest righteous people?
Are the wicked more righteous than the greatest righteous people?
Question
According to psychiatric science, there are people who are simply born psychopaths and just have to cause harm; it’s simply stronger than they are. According to psychiatry, there is no remedy for them. So why are they considered wicked? Seemingly they are more righteous than all the righteous people. Because a righteous person merits closeness to God, etc., while the wicked person, his whole life from the moment of birth, is immersed in “negative energies,” terrible impulses, and so on. For example, various pedophiles are released from prison after years and immediately go back to their old ways; they simply are not capable of overcoming it.
If you look into this, various results come up, for example:
https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3248361,00.html
From the article: 21 years ago he was convicted… of committing indecent acts with a minor. Since then he has gone in and out of prison five times for similar offenses, without the judges seeing fit to impose a deterrent punishment on him. Today he was convicted in nine cases of indecent acts with minor girls and sentenced to seven years in prison. Maybe this time it will help.
Or https://news.walla.co.il/item/2629234
From the article:
This thought, when it arises, is obsessive and uncontrollable. You stop thinking rationally and are essentially controlled by your impulses. It is impossible to resist it.
So if there is a person who serves God, studies Torah, keeps the commandments, grows spiritually, etc. etc. — how is he greater than a person who suffers all his life from what is really the worst thing, namely distance from God?
Answer
Who said they are wicked? Absolutely not. They are harmful, and one must protect oneself from them, but not punish them. That is assuming they really are coerced. I would add that I am far from having such complete faith in the determinations of psychiatry and psychology regarding a person’s sanity and his responsibility for his actions.
I did not understand the second question.
They are wicked even though they were created that way. Who told you that free will exists? Or that a person who has no choice cannot be wicked? Maybe the Calvinists are right, and a person is born from the outset destined to go to Heaven or Hell, and there is no way for a person to change that?