What is Evil?
Is an actual force of nature, or an interpretation of an experience judge after a moral reflection?
What is it?
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According to dictionary.com:
1. morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked: evil deeds; an evil life.
2. harmful; injurious: evil laws.
3. characterized or accompanied by misfortune or suffering; unfortunate; disastrous: to be fallen on evil days.
4. due to actual or imputed bad conduct or character: an evil reputation.
5. marked by anger, irritability, irascibility, etc.: He is known for his evil disposition.
–noun 6. that which is evil; evil quality, intention, or conduct: to choose the lesser of two evils.
7. the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin.
8. the wicked or immoral part of someone or something: The evil in his nature has destroyed the good.
9. harm; mischief; misfortune: to wish one evil.
10. anything causing injury or harm: Tobacco is considered by some to be an evil.
11. a harmful aspect, effect, or consequence: the evils of alcohol.
12. a disease, as king's evil.
–adverb 13. in an evil manner; badly; ill: It went evil with him.
—Idiom14. the evil one, the devil; Satan.
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The fact that there are so many definitions means that there is no consensus. This explain A LOOOOOT OF WHY MANKIND BEHAVE SO BRUTALLY AND VIOLENT
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A fundamental question is whether there is a universal, transcendent definition of evil, or whether evil is determined by ones social or cultural background. C. S. Lewis, in The Abolition of Man, maintained that there are certain acts that are universally considered evil, such as rape and murder.
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The question here is when rape and murder is justified [I pist a loooooot of people with this]
like attacking a nation let's say Iraq, let's say World trade center, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Poland etc. etc. etc. Who says who has the right?
God or Allah?
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US copyright: Discovery channel scholar 1000 years ago, Christians march to the holy city Jerusalem after pope Urban the second at the council of Claremont declare the first crusade, so they marched to the Holy city Jerusalem, where they kill every men women and child because they have to get rid of the evil in Jerusalem; couple of centuries later, they were doing the kind of things not even serial killers do, burning people at the stake, boiling people in Oil, skinning people alive, Cause they were witches that make a pact with the devil therefore they were getting rid of Evil. Slavery was excused with the bible, Exodus 21 was used by Spain, England, the Dutch, France and the Confederate States, to excuse one or maybe the most horrible holocaust that actually brought Indian civilizations to extinction and African torture for more that 300 years. The Nazis use the term Evil when referring to the Jews a propaganda that lead to one of history darkest hours
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we Can see this conduct all the way to Sep 11 2001 when a couple of fundamentalists hijacked a couple of planes filled with innocent people and crashed into building with thousands of people in it.
Why they did this?
Because they crazy?
They are not.
WE SEE IT HAPPENED ALL THE TIME.
IN THE NAME OF CHRIST
IN THE NAME OF COMMUNISM
IN THE NAME OF RACIAL SUPERIORITY [NAZIS]
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH
Why these Men for an example could do something like this?
It shattered your heart and mind.
I tell you why,
when you love an utopia more than you love people, people itself has no value and this will be inevitable.
In their minds they were not doing a horrible murder they saw themselves as heroes actually getting rid of what they perceive is evil.
AND WE ARE NO DIFFRENT
SOME OF YOU MIGHT THINK THAT THIS IS NOT FARE FOR OUR TROOPS.
This is not a political statement,
this is a human one.
when you love an utopia more than you love people, people itself has no value and this will be inevitable.
murdering [or collateral damage]
intentionally or otherwise is acceptable, because in their minds this people are a danger to the realisation of the Utopia.
I looooooove this country and I fought for it when it need it the most, but we need a sociological change that does not operate out of Fear.
Fear is the engine of Evil.
Evil is human, not supernatural. Using reductionism as a tool, if evil has a particle or building block it will be THE INABILITY TO HANDLE A DISAGREEMENT.