Please define Good & Evil

[Radzilla]

Evil: Punching a kid for no reason.
Good: Punching a kid if he is being a little *****.

I might be wrong here but a ccording to your interpretation, good and evil are pretty much the same thing form different perspectives.
You see, the kid being punched will assume that the bully is punching him for no reason, therefore he's evil.
Meanwhile, the bully will see himself as good because he's teaching a kid not to be a little *****.

Good and evil are abstract and unrealistic concepts created under the influence of our emotions.
Everything we do, we do it for ourselves.
Even the most altruistic things, we do for ourselves.
You save a child from a burning building because if you didn't, it would bother you.
Not because you really care about the kid or his family but because the thought of the kid dying and the family being sad would bother YOU.
You give a bum some money not because you care about his well being but because the sight of him bothers YOU.
Everything we do is selfish.
We do stuff to make ourselves feel better.

Being humble is also selfish.
It's basically saying: "I'm better than you and I don't need any reward for my deeds".
You don't get a reward from others but you praise yourself for doing things which you consider to be good.
Your own brain makes you feel better.
You're doing it just for that.
Even if you don't think about it, that's what's going on, subconciously.

Good and evil don't exist outside of our brains.
There are as many definitions of good and evil as there are people.
What is good to some might be evil to others, and vice versa.

That is all, for now.

Its funny you should say that. Iv'e never had a discussions about morals with anyone without bringing that up. People cant grasp the concept of people, at that level, being selfish. Its nice to hear that I'm not the only asshole pointing that out to people.

When it comes down to it. If your brain made you feel bad about doing unselfish deeds you'd never do it. We're all endorphin and serotonin junkies.

Also I love that fact that you pulled all that out of a remark surrounding child abuse.

 

[Life_Is_A_Mess]

Good - Help it: get awesome prizes

Evil - Smite it: get awesome prizes

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

Good: helps people more than hurts.

Bad: Hurts People More then Helps.

neutral: mixed. hard to tell.

 

[Brad Shepard]

There is no good in this world, nore is there evil, its people looking for ways out of there lives by any means possible.

Drug dealers deal drugs because they want money to have a easy life, does that make them evil?

There is no black nore white, only grey and shades of grey, some are just lighter then others, some are just darker.

 

[Cody211282]

i will give an example of both.

Good-Helping your friend move

Evil-The Holocaust

 

[Anti-gravity]

Good people pet kittens, bad people eat kittens.

 

[SquirrelPants]

I've got...strong opinions on good and evil, to say the least. The thing I say is "they don't exist" because there is no moral value(usually what defines good and evil) that is objectively better than the other one.

I wouldn't even begin trying to explain that to a little kid, though. I probably would have just gone ahead and said "yes, he's evil" or I would have anticipated the conversation and said "yeah, he's a bad guy."

But I do rather agree that games are CAPABLE of telling much more interesting stories now, rather than just the good versus evil route. It's a shame it doesn't happen more often than it does, really. Usually the games that it happens in are a lot of fun.