without evil, there could be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes (south park-da movie)?

Question

good and evil are things in our mind, we make them evil because we attach a moral to them. If there was a killer who just killed for killing, not thinking at all, would be a pure killing machine and only a machine with a purpose. It becomes evil when the person is conciencious of his actions.

So if you do not think your actions are evil, they are not. It is only when you think they might be evil, that they indeed, become evil. When you feel guilt, this is when you feel evil. If you got rid of guilt, the grain or "heart" of your action would just be purposeful, and ceaze to be evil.

That does not mean, however, that such actions would be beneficial to society, someone who kills and does not think its evil (really really, not just killing for revenge but is actualyl psychopathic), should just be killed because he is a menace to socieyt, and prevents our existance as a race if we let him roam free in the genepool.

They are only wrong, if you concider them to be wrong.

If you did not, and did not have the emotional hardwiring that tells you killing is wrong (preservation of our race),

then you would just be like a robot, a machine that kills with no concious, and it would be evil, it would just be.

*would not,

sorry,

hehe

Answer 1

I thought that was from 'A Vampire in Brooklyn'

Answer 2

Where did you get this stuff? Of course there is objective right and wrong. Without it there would be anarchy in the world. That's like saying there is no objective truth. Both of these beliefs can be proven wrong.

All people agree that murder, rape and theft are wrong. How do people know this? And don't give me the society excuse. All peoples in all times have known these things.

Please don't trust TV and movies for you philosophical education. Read Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas. These are the greatest philosophic minds of all time.

Answer 3

in this world there is evil yes, but the claim that there has to be evil for there to be good is a lie plain and simple.

Answer 4

Frst of all, your premise is faulty and is an ancient teaser that was answered in Romans 6:1-16 (read Chapter 5 for context-and the rest of chapter six for a fuller answer.):

6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? [as your premise suggests]
6:2 God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
6:3 Or are ye ingnorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
6:4 We were buried therefore with Him through baptism unto death; that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
6:5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of his death, we shall be alsoin the likeness of His resurrection;
6:6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin; for he that died is justified from sin...............
6:11Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof;
6:13 neither present your membere unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
6:15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?