Cougars Are Not Wicked

If we got here by a process of unaided materialistic evolution, then we are not significantly different from animals, and everyone knows that animals do not have moral choice.  We do not punish a cougar for snatching a rancher’s sheep for dinner.  That is what cougars do.  We may find a way of protecting the farmer’s assets but we do not consider the cougar wicked.  If we are qualitatively animals, then mugging little old ladies is just what some people do.  Labeling their actions as wicked makes no sense, and you cannot punish humans who have done nothing wicked any more than you can punish cougars.

Rabbi Daniel Lapin, America's Real War, p.52