Can the world survive without evil?

Question

If you take out evil, which mean people like killers, theives and so on, and you get rid of hunger and sickness, can the world survive and would people be able to even work? What would they work as?

Answer 1

Of course we could eliminate most "evil," if you actually define evil rather than just go with whatever whims you feel like are evil, which are actually your own personal hang ups you've been unable to reconcile with yourself due to denial, leading to hurt, anger, self-destruction, guilt, and depression.

"Evil" or crimes, include the immoral use of force against other human beings outside of direct self-defense such as insults, begging, threats by mysticism, other threats, theft, murder, rape, war, etc., punished by imprisonment and fines.

Negligence is the crime of pollution, lack of foresight like killing all the buffalo or not stopping selling cigarettes when they are clearly dangerous, punished by imprisonment and/ or fines.

Dishonesty is the breaking of contracts between persons such as cheating on your spouse, punished by fines, bad reputation, etc.

Getting rid of those things will help everyone a lot. But of course you can't do that magically and people will continue to do evil more or less. The best thing we can do is stand up for reason and what is right, insist on justice being served to real criminals, while victimless crimes based on religious mysticism are dismissed as foolish.

Answer 2

Your question is fair, and it is a universal dream to have life without the pain of suffering and evil. But unfortunately, your question is un-answerable. For the removal of evil necessarily requires that everyone is good. The only way this can happen is if people are forced to, or if 'good' is instinct that a human cannot break. Ofcourse this means that humans are no longer free and no longer have free choice, they become like robots and therefore cease to be humans. One can conclude then, that a good world can only survive without free humans. Depending on ones definition of the world, humans may even be necessary, we cannot conceptualise the world without humans.

Answer 3

I believe that the answer is in nature: nature is not good or evil by itself, nature just is (you can also say that it is not beautiful nor ugly, etc.). So, what then determines good and evil? Surely, only humans. Also, if we can not say nature is in any ethical category, then what is? Again, only humans. So, we determine good and evil, and both originate from us. That's what we can say with certainty - we can never prove or even think some ultimate, abstract good and evil. Now we have stated that both good and evil can only exist while the human beings exist. What would then be the nature of good and evil? If we try to look at those terms totally objective, we will see that they can be stretched and compressed according to the given situation. This means that they have no constant nature and further more, proves that they originate from the human nature. And, if we state that the human nature can not be divided, we must conclude that, while the human race exists, both good and evil will co-exist with it!

Answer 4

You are making two huge a-priori assumptions, here. Just because our world requires people to be involved in the prevention and control of crime and criminals, that does not mean this is the only way a society could be organized. Similarly, not all incoventient or undesirable things happen because of evil.

I am sure that, should evil disappear tomorrow, houses will still need to be built, drains will still need to be unclogged and cars will, at least occasionally, not start when we want them to. Furthermore, we would still need people to treat sewage and collect garbage, most likely. People will still get old, and be born, require nurses and teachers.

Just because the world would be different, that does not mean it would not survive. In short, I think the world will function quite well without the incalculable drain imposed by the entire crime-prevention industry.

Answer 5

no, the world would not survive, because with out hunger, having food would not be a privilege, without sickness being healthy would not be a gift, with out mean people nice people wouldn't be special. Evil is the counter part to good, the yin and yang, with out one the other could not exist.

Answer 6

i honestly believe the world would be a better place if we didnt have even 90 percent of the "evil" that we have now. yes there would still be jobs. but i think that if we existed in a world of perfect harmony, without childmolesters, killers, thiefs and rapists, then we wouldnt need to spend so many tax dollars to put them up in prison and feed them and shelter them and have them live the high life while us common folk are out busting our bums to "support" them with out tax money. in a world without them, we could work and live comfortably and just support ourselves and our families. if we had no hunger, then we could all live abundantly off of the crops from the farmers, and everyone would always have enough to eat. but i dont think we could ever have a world without sickness. i think that is something we can never fully get rid of.

Answer 7

yea, it can survive and there are a lot of works to do in the sections of ;
Arts & Humanities
Beauty & Style
Business & Finance
Cars & Transportation
Computers & Internet
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Music
Family & Relationships
Food & Drink
Games & Recreation
Healing the world
Local Businesses
News & Events
Pets
Politics & Government
Health[Pregnancy & Parenting..etc]
Science & Mathematics
Social Science .....etc

Answer 8

Yeah a way better world n ppl would find other things to do for a living. If there was only good ppl in the world then everyone would help everyone out.

Answer 9

first define evil..
for sometimes some evil can be meant as good..
capital punishment is killing .. so is that evil?
sickness.. in the animal kingdom is a good thing for it makes the herd healthier when the sick die off..

so i think evil is just a balance in a way

Answer 10

Evil is necessary. without evil tthere would be no appreciation of good.