Would you say life forms with a *will to survive*, but lacking in self-consciousness are capable of evil acts?

Question

Please, no yes's or no's without explaining or commenting on your answer.

felix all Q depend on alot of unmentioned info. Try answering the Q's asked rather than modify it beyond recognition and also avoid unnecessary criticism of the the asker who presumably one must assume puts the Q up with good intentions.

TWH 08222006

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Answer 1

Their actions for survival may be labelled evil by us, for we have the concept of evil and make judgements as to whether something, someone or an action is evil.

But for the life form seeking survival and with no self-consciousness, then its actions are purely instinctive without any awareness of how another life form might judge them.

Answer 2

No, because the material world turns on the dog-eat-dog syndrome. There will never be a 'lamb lies down with the lion' scenario here. Every living being is food for another. This is not evil, its just the way the world is.

What is evil is unnecessary suffering inflicted by those who know better or should know better. A prime example of this is the industrialized meat business. From birth to the final slaughter, cows, pigs and chickens are made to suffer to appease the taste buds of increasingly obese people. Meat is not necessary for human health and most people know that animal slaughter gives pain to the animals, yet they consume meat by the ton. This is real evil.

Answer 3

He could be capable of evil acts but he would not really know it is evil. What is good and what is evil is dictated by law but law springs about from the nature of thought. If one has no consciousness, he would have the lack of thought so he does not have a real grasp on the law. Without this law, his acts would not be good or bad to him. It just is different when people see it as people have their own perceptions to the law.

Answer 4

perhaps your question is flawed or perhaps you left the paradox in to try to trick us. if a life form has a WILL then it has CONSCIOUSNESS,every action has an equal and opposite reaction ( Issac newton).
so perhaps you are trying to ask if consciousness+will for life=evil.
if so then no. you are being to hard on your self.
life is. just "is".
life begins and life ends, or does it , i can only be sure of my own experience and i don't remember starting my existence and i can assure you i exist now.
i remember first being aware of my existence but that profound moment happened at 13 months old and although knew it was relevant i lacked the skills to make my discovery known but i didn't feel like i had just been created even then it just felt like my relative point had changed and things had just entered a new and more interactive stage...

Answer 5

everything is relative. From your point of view it may be evil, from other point of view it may be ok. It depends of the person. But anyway some life forms think that in order to survive you have to serve no master but your own ambition. For them something wouldn't be evil but for somebody else it would seem evil....depends of the point of view of a person

Answer 6

I have always had the will to survive and I still do, even now in the autumn of my years. I would never be able to do evil acts. My survival had to be with honor.

Answer 7

Life forms without self conciousness I feel survive and live in perfect harmony. They are parts of Gods cycle and therefore cannot be evil. What sets us apart in that respect is our ability to choose......

Answer 8

maybe evil acts from our point of view. From their point of view is a simple way to survive.
A lion kills it's pray and yet is not evil that he does it. It's just surviving. But he won't kill more than he could eat .

Answer 9

i imagine the time period "information" is amazingly ambiguous. there is not any proper thanks to outline it. to provide some examples, human information is amazingly, very diverse from lion information, and canine information has no longer something to do with lobster information. deep-sea anglerfish information is amazingly diverse from chameleon information. and so on. so the question is, wakeful in what sense? as in "self-conscious, conscious that the self is break away all else"? because some creatures might want to be self-conscious in a thoroughly diverse way. a number of them might want to no longer even make a large difference between their body and different gadgets. i'm constructive that there are a range of "wakeful" marine creatures available, maximum of them likely microscopic, who sense as inspite of the undeniable fact that the sea itself is area of their body, and is by no skill break away them. i imagine, in a unmarried way or yet another, all lifeforms are wakeful. they might want to be, with the intention to compete to live on, both for territory, food provide, or mating rights. it truly is a crucial primordial device that merely might want to also be the gas of evolution itself. it would want to truly be that information itself is the catalyst that instruments all of organic decision as all of us recognize it in action.

Answer 10

If the life form has no self-consciousness, then it is amoral. For it, there is no right or wrong thus no "evil".