Someone answered this Q:
"Is our human ability to choose (which sets us apart from all other animals) the source of all human evil?
with this stmt "the source of evil is ignorance." ,
so I'm putting it out there for public evaluation. TWH 08302006
2006-08-30 08:21:05 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
dukalink, You said "Not an ignorance, but an ignoring. "It's not my problem." I call that intentional denial not ignoring and the result of either one is ignorance.
I wish people would answer the Q asked not some version they would have liked to see which,if they thought about it, they could ask themselves. Sorry, but after having evaluated so many answers for best Q award, I have observed this is a serious problem with the Q&A forum that Yahoo has created. TWH 08302006
2006-08-30 08:49:41 · update #1
The absence of knowledge is not evil. Evil is : morally reprehensible : SINFUL, WICKED
One chooses to be evil, but not necisarily do evil. If done on accident (as in you know no beter) than you aren't evil for you know not good. If you know good then you know evil. Choose one and be condemned or blessed.
2006-08-30 08:32:22 · answer #1 · answered by chaoticmagician 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ignorance is not the root of evil. Unfortunately, the source of evil, and its strength, is from the human condition. Though harsh at times, there is no evil in nature. Man recognized this when the first rules of law were written as a means to hold evil in check, by limiting mankind's natural propensity to do evil, by keeping certain behavior in check.
Ignorance is the means by which evil is spread, To limit one's horizon and scope of knowledge is to exert control over a populace, or an individual. Through ignorance there is lack of truth, therefore no lack of lies, which at face value is evil, which many of the uninformed or misinformed happily surrender to.
It has been as such forever, and forever shall be, for as long as humans inhabit the earth, I'm afraid. But, there is hope. By virtue of the fact that some see evil and recognize it for the destructive force that it is, those who are committed to bettering the plight of man may be the impetus to spread knowledge, the bane of ignorance and evil.
2006-08-30 11:59:20 · answer #2 · answered by Samurai Hoghead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human ignorance can contribute to certain forms or incidences of evil, but it is not the principle cause. To get at the cause we have to think about why, for instance, some children are brought up to hate anyone who is not like them, why children are trained to throw rocks and shoot guns before they are old enough to think things through for themselves. And why they do it.
No, evil lies in the heart of man, all men. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, when he chronicled the Soviet Prison system and it's terrible abuses of people who had done no crimes, was careful to point out that it's not us and them. Any peoples are capable of such actions. And history bears that out pretty much.
I like the way Pogo put it: "We has the met the enemy, and he is us".
2006-08-30 08:31:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God made us to be free will beings and we chose evil.
No ignorance is not always the reason that we do no,noes. Eve was told what was what along with Adam and in the knowledge that they had they chose bad. God didn't spell it out in a longhand explanation so The Devil took advantage of that.
Parents do the same thing they give info just don't spell it out but they(the child) did know what not to do.
2006-09-04 20:49:33 · answer #4 · answered by Pepsi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not entirely. There are many other causes of "evil", whatever that is.
Such as competition for resources... needing/wanting different things causes people to hurt others in order to get them, and has nothing to do with ignorance... unless you want argue that nobody would hurt anybody else if they truly knew the hurt they were causing, but that's a little indirect.
2006-08-30 08:28:07 · answer #5 · answered by s_e_e 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, ignorance is not the principle cause or source of evil.
I believe that the true source of all evil is greed.It is this want of things that has destroyed nations, starve people by millions, cause unmeasurable suffering. If there was no unreasonable want there would not be so much misery.
2006-09-07 08:00:26 · answer #6 · answered by Mr.Morgan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my belief, yes. But I think that the idea of taking responsibility for one's own actions instead of blaming religion, money or the government is also the source of all evil: I think the two ideas are intrinsically linked.
2006-08-30 08:39:44 · answer #7 · answered by Realmstarr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Tree of understanding became in basic terms that - a style of Adam and Eve's understanding. earlier that they've been unaware and harmless, risk-free and sheltered from many reviews. i do no longer think it became a sin to pass with that understanding so there became no punishment, even nonetheless it would desire to have been a painful awakening. you could purely understand ethics or the effect of decision by ability of residing with those outcomes or a minimum of gazing or reading with regard to the ideas and outcomes of human beings.
2016-11-06 02:16:25 · answer #8 · answered by saturnio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not fully.
Certain a thoughtlessness over consequences comes into play, but evil thrives when we choose to do nothing about it.
Not an ignorance, but an ignoring. "It's not my problem."
2006-08-30 08:25:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i refuse to believe that people commit evil acts out of ignorance. they ought to take responsibility for their actions...
2006-08-30 09:25:36 · answer #10 · answered by Dizzie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋