All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing. Edmund Burke
Peace and Love
2007-02-20 01:31:56 · 13 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, it is true. Peace and Love
ME
2007-02-20 01:35:03 · answer #1 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good and evil are transient and interchangeable terms in the best of definitions. Both are a state of mind and both are illusions of control. Evil, true evil is contained within everyone, just as true goodness is there as well. If evil would triumphh if the good do nothing to stop it. Then the same could be said in the reverse, good would triump if evil people did nothing to stop it. There again those concepts are for the most part religious and morally based idioms. There are also those things that are only perceived to be evil or good dependent upon social and demographic norms. As example most would say that killing is bad or evil, but there are exceptions, killing for food is ok right? Killing to protect ones family or ones self is ok too. But it is the very need for exception that creates the gray area that is the blur between good and evil.
2007-02-20 09:50:49 · answer #2 · answered by Tom H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and that is why many people blame religion for wars and such. But if one turns the other cheek and gets slapped again then what is there to do. If we did not rise up against Hitler and the Japanese in WW II, just where would the world be today. Think about that.
And does anyone actually believe that Iraq was better off with Saddam? Get real.
2007-02-20 09:39:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sort of.
If you have the power to take action, help people and do whats right then you also have the responsibility to - this is not a religious question.
Hmm unless you mean that the rise of religious intolerance and savage funamentalism which is damaging the world is being tolerated by decent people when it shouldn't be?
Good people ALSO believe in freedom though. We can't just slaughter to a man everyone we consider 'evil' then the intolerant fundamentalists would be us.
2007-02-20 09:35:21 · answer #4 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a catchy phrase that was bandied about a lot before the invasion of Iraq but in reality evil triumphed after something had been done to (allegedly) try and combat tyranny. Maybe it's just a dangerous type of utilitarian thinking that could be used to justify any action.
2007-02-20 09:35:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
oh i was just talking about this about an hour ago digi
i was speaking about how so many negative things are said about the paranormal because not many genuine people speak up ...
and then i applied this to other peoples beliefs and faiths
we usually only hear the negative because the possitive is usually passive and wont speak out
but i think it is time to
( sorry i interprated this question in my own way lol )
2007-02-20 09:35:58 · answer #6 · answered by Peace 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think this is completely true.
It's like putting a puzzle together. (the world being a puzzle and the finished product being good and beautiful).
if you don't work on it, it'll either never get finished or it'll get knocked off the table and fall apart.
we need to do something about our world or it'll go down bad.
Sam*
2007-02-20 09:38:23 · answer #7 · answered by sampickinsweet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It is true. Not a very open ended question, but still, a good reminder.
2007-02-20 09:36:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.
- John Bunyan
2007-02-20 09:37:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is true. If there is no one doing the right things, everyone is doing the wrong things.
2007-02-20 09:37:42 · answer #10 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋