Does Evil Exist in the world today?
Watch this Power Point display and decide for yourself. And see some awesome pictures too.
http://disguiseddisciple.com/2007discussion/index.php?topic=43.msg51#msg51
2007-03-26 07:18:57 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes.....
Evil is the absence of Good
2007-03-26 07:22:26 · answer #1 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No.
Evil isn't a thing, as such. It is not a substance or energy that exists. It isn't even a characteristic of something.
Evil is a judgement by people of other things and actions. If you hold an object, there is no characteristic of that object that you could measure to show how much evil it contains. The same holds true of any person or action.
If someone says that an object, action, or person is evil, that says more about the person making the judgement than it does the object, action, or person.
BTW, your Powerpoint slide attributed that worn out anectdote to Einstein, and I challenge you to find anything to back up that claim.
Your slide show is flawed, though. The students mentioned cold and darkness as analogies to evil. However, unlike evil, cold and darkness have opposites that can be quantified and measured. Heat is directly measurable. As the slide mentioned, you can split light with a prism and analyze it.
You can't measure good any more than you can measure evil. Neither exist in reality, only as judgements by others.
2007-03-26 14:21:59 · answer #2 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Evil is not a thing, nor a property of a thing, it is a value judgment. So, to the extent that people judge things evil, evil exists.
2007-03-26 14:30:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't need to watch your PowerPoint to know that YES, evil does exist in the world today.
2007-03-26 14:21:49 · answer #4 · answered by Caleb's Mom 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Evil exists in the same way that sadness exists.
2007-03-26 14:31:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Depends on what you mean by evil. Evil as some sort of outside entity...no. Humans create their own evil.
2007-03-26 14:23:57 · answer #6 · answered by Jess H 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Forget the powerpoint, all you have to do is watch the View and you will see Rosie Odonnell.
Case closed, it exists.
2007-03-26 14:25:40 · answer #7 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, but it'll leave office on January 20th, 2009.
2007-03-26 14:21:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Is it a picture of George Bush?
2007-03-26 14:22:58 · answer #9 · answered by guy o 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just look around you, don't need a powerpoint presentation for that.
2007-03-26 14:34:13 · answer #10 · answered by ragincajun1957 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋