I've spent time thinking about this before, and come to the conclusion that there actually is no such thing as Good or Evil. This system of morals that we've created has no real meaning: Why is it wrong to kill or steal? Why is it wrong to be selfish? I mean it's not as if anyone has any REAL ownership over anything anyway. I once presented this theory to someone, asking why such things are considered "bad" or forbidden, excluding religious reasons, and why would anyone be punished for anything like that and he replied intelligently that the only reason someone would be punished for anything like that is simply because Order = Survival. If someone threatens that order with chaos that goes against the order, then they are technically threatening our survival, and for that they must be punished.
What is Evil?
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I would define someone as Evil as someone who sucks off the ideas of others, ruins them entirely, and profits off them. For example, Stephanie Myier(?) ruined both romance and horror with her somehow SUCKsessful book, Twilight. She's evil.
Damn, I sound kind of like Andrew Ryan, eh? "A man builds. A parasite asks "where is my share?"
Damn, I sound kind of like Andrew Ryan, eh? "A man builds. A parasite asks "where is my share?"
Evil=Every Villain is Lemons
(anybody? It's an easy one)
OT: There is no such thing as evil, only the differing perceptions of what someone thinks is right versus what another person thinks is right.
(anybody? It's an easy one)
OT: There is no such thing as evil, only the differing perceptions of what someone thinks is right versus what another person thinks is right.
No-one is evil - People do whatever they see fit and other people call it 'bad' unless its done for a 'good' cause. Opinions of the vast majority do not make right and wrong, right and wrong is something you decide, so long as you are prepared for the fact that many will disagree.
The point is to discuss what you think is pure Evil. So that's pretty much irrelevant, you realize.sethisjimmy said:
Anyways....
I'd pretty much say that's my opinion of pure Evil. When you do not concern yourself with your effects on others, that would be quite a large lack of concern for life.ZephrC said:
Allow me to elaborate. In my opinion (I could be wrong) evil comes down to perception. Generally, if someone commits something we see as "Evil" , this "someone" see themselves as right, not evil at all. Defining evil is a very hard thing to do.Fragamoo said:
Say you were given the choice to kill a person. That said person would eventually go on the cause the death of thousands. You'd probably kill that person right? That hardly makes you evil. But what if one of the people killed, would go on to cause even more deaths than the first? Does that make the first person evil?
Evil is a very tricky thing to define.
Evil is whatever is opposing you if what you are doing is good.
I suppose good and evil are all up to how you view things but I think if you view something as good and something is opposing your good then it is evil.
I suppose good and evil are all up to how you view things but I think if you view something as good and something is opposing your good then it is evil.
From what I understand, that's called Opportunism, and is the crutch of many a politician.Kollega said:
I define Evil as being the opposite of what I define as Good. What do I define as good? Good is Love in the same way Love is good.
What is love then?
Paul the apostle gives us what love is pretty nicely:
- "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
-The First Letter to the Church of Corinth, chapter 13 verses 4-6
- "Evil is impatient, evil is ruthless. It covets, it boasts and is greatly prideful. It is brutish, self-serving and driven to anger with ease. It maintains grudges forever. It hates good and revels in lies. It attacks, never trusts, always dismays and always loses." QED.
There is no such thing as evil, just varying states of mind. No one, not even Darth Vader, would label themselves evil, but practically everyone labels people he doesn't like, evil.
So evil is basically, what we lable who or whatever we want the general public to dislike.
On a somewhat related note, let me throw in the best motto for live ever:
Peace is a lie; there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.
Amen
So evil is basically, what we lable who or whatever we want the general public to dislike.
On a somewhat related note, let me throw in the best motto for live ever:
Peace is a lie; there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.
Amen
I think some people are missing the presupposition of the question. Because the question concerns the nature of the abstract construct of evil, it is making the assumption that there is an objective definition for evil rather than a merely subjective or situational definition.
Basically what I'm asking is if you keep narrowing the spectrum, what do you get? A desire mug someone is motivated by the desire for money which in turn is a result of inflated self-status and self-entitlement that springs in-turn from an overall selfish worldview.
^That's the kind of argument I was making.
Basically what I'm asking is if you keep narrowing the spectrum, what do you get? A desire mug someone is motivated by the desire for money which in turn is a result of inflated self-status and self-entitlement that springs in-turn from an overall selfish worldview.
^That's the kind of argument I was making.