Violence and the Need for Skillful Moral Judgement

In this clip Start Davis and Ken Wilber discuss the ways that the executioner of the Virginia Tech shootings and the executioners of the events of 9/11 were all at a shared level of development; most likely magic or mythic, or some combination of the two. But it is not just these two levels of development that are problematic, but that a Green (relativistic) level of development (fully two to three stages higher than the aforementioned executioners) tends to become trapped in moral relativism (namely, that all views are right; all views are constructed; and that no one view is any more right than another), and as a result, possibly creates a permissive environment. What are we to do if society cannot make the difficult and decisive moral decisions necessary to help prevent these types of behavior? Cultivate, support, and encourage second-tier thinkers.