Rather than answer those questions I wonder if I might re-cast a few of them. It seems to me that our answers to broader philosphical questions will generally inform a number of these. Many of you are much more on top of your philosophical game so I’ll look foreward to correction, but here’s how I see it:
The question
(1) How does a person get to be warped?
a) can begun to be answered through questions around the nature/nurture debate, and b) questions around whether “warpedness” is a social construct or has some objective, transpersonal reality.
Micah’s question
(2) Can warpedness be redeemed (e.g., channeled into certain forms of expression which are good)?
c) Would have a similar answer to the wider question of whether or not the ends justify the means.
Micha’s question (3) Can warpedness be healed?
relates to question b) as stated above, as well as questions about the nature of the soul. (Call questions about the nature of the soul d)
(4) Can you redeem warpedness without healing it?
e) Perhaps there is a little bit about whether justice is punitive or restorative in nature running around under this question?
Micha’s question: (5) Is it possible to live by a code which you were taught, but which goes against what you are?
wider question: really a version of question b, I think; is the reality we are socialized to a rather arbitrary set of ideas or does it correspond to a wider reality.
(6) What is “what you are,” and how is it that you came to be what you are?
I suppose this adresses question d) again.

Anyway, I think you all get what I’m saying; basically I suspect it might be helpful it is to recognize the wider philosophical context of the questions. (Which probably isn’t really a surpeise to anybody, but I thought I’d throw my 2 cents in.)

Scott; this is Micah.

Micah; meet my friend Scott.

I believe you two may know each other from somewhere, but I’m not exactly sure where.

*waves*

The evil, evil writer’s strike, which has forced me to wait until next freakin’ winter to get resolution on the numerous plotlines that Friday Night Lights was working.

Writers suck. Oops, I am a writer of sorts, and would prefer not to be self-loathing.