Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-06-11]: A 5-year old girl may be after all be prosecuted with murder charges [source: Yahoo! News]. Can someone who does not know the definition of evil, actually do evil? And if not, then why do such events do not take place among the children of “primitive” Indians? If murder is the disruption of the harmony of the world, isn’t that something everyone should sense? We have distanced ourselves from that harmony years ago. And children are just doing what they sense around them…Relative article: The Source of Ethics
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