What is evil ?

Question

Is evil an entity? Dose it exist in man or is it created by man? what defines evil? what is the true nature of evil?

Answer 1

Evil is when greed and vengeance lead more each day to mankind's annihilation...=<)

Answer 2

As a traditional dualistic idea, there is good and evil. What defines good and evil is purely determined by a society's set of social, moral and ethical standards. Many religions personify evil and create/ believe in entities that represent good and evil.

In my opinion, good and evil are relative terms. For example, gang violence is sometimes personally justified due to one's conditioning and environment, as a matter of mere survival. Others, believe that senseless violence and murder are evil under every circumstance. Some Hindu's believe that eating cows is evil and immoral. Whereas I believe it to be good American food. It's all relative.

Hobbes said that without order life would be "nasty, brutish and short"... I think he's trying to say that man is naturally bad/evil. Marx might say that type of "order" is oppressive and find the nature of this argument to be evil. He might believe that individuals can work together collectively without being oppressed or using one another.

Evil is an idea relative to a society's mainstream ideals. What is acceptable and what is not, morally speaking.

Answer 3

evil is to bring harm to another without remorse (liking it) Evil is not an entity in itself and evil would exist in man that had created a place in his heart for it. As far as defining evil it is the absence of good. True nature of evil is whatever one wants at any expense or at any cost

Answer 4

You can find all the answers to those questions in the Holy Bible. I would suggest you get a New Living translation, because it is written in plain modern English. Use a concordance to help locate your answers.

Satan is evil, sin is evil, anything that is wrong is evil. Read it for yourself. The bible is the handbook for life and you will find the true answers there. The knowlege of right and wrong were written on your heart before you were born. So you already know.

Answer 5

Friend, evil is nothing but the lack of good. Evil does not exist. The lack of goodness does though. Forming a sad melancholy feeling which leads us to believe that evil in fact does exist. But, no....it doesn't. You might be asking yourself....what about the people that plant all those bombs? Isn't that evil? What about the people that murder? Isn't that evil? What about the people that hate everything? Isn't that an expression of evil? Many people have a variaty of theories on this. The moajority of mankind says that one human has two hearts of themselves. A good-will heart and an evil-will heart. I'm not sure if I belive that. Reason....well, I believe that no one has an evil heart. If you look through the eyes of that particular person....they are happy in their own way. They feel comfort. They feel good-will in their own way. Now by no means am I saying that violence and terrorism and murdering and all that is good. I'm just saying that there is a certain amoumt of lack in it. Lack of good-will. One just needs to put that lacking good-will into those persepctives...and that empty space of perfidy will be covered. With fulfillment comes satisfaction, and with satisfaction comes happiness. Happiness....a pure symbol of good-will. So my unseen friend....I repeat what I said in my first sentence, evil is nothing but the lack of good.

Original: By Cameo DiLain.

I hope this helped you for the question that you asked. :)

Answer 6

Evil is a word that illicits symbols and feelings when thought or felt by humans. It is the ongoing spectrum of how we perceive negative influences and occurences that happen in the world. Evil is basically only a perception, not an entity. One may perceive an act as evil and another may perceive it as good. The act is not necessarily good or evil, it just is, up until a person places judgment on the act and deems it evil or good.

Answer 7

Pythagoras thought that eating beans was evil. He wasn't an idiot -- he was a genius who taught us a lot about triangles.

Evil, like any other word, means exactly what we understand it to mean in the context we say it in. We say words in various circumstances and usually we more or less agree what they mean, so their meaning is easy to establish.

In the case of evil, in some contexts you will find that everyone agrees with how you use it, in which case the meaning is clear. In other contexts, you'll find that there are a lot of different opinions and that the meaning of the word seems to be called into doubt.

This is a problem of translation. Not everyone understands the word in the same way, and it is difficult to come to a consensus because evil is not concretely identifiable like a rock or a chair. We understand all words on the basis of our past experience of their use. Chairs are commonplace and concrete, so it is easy for us to come to an agreement about what is or is not a chair, and it is easy for us to clear up misunderstandings. For example, two people raised in different places might refer to the same thing as "soda" or "pop", but this difference can be easily cleared up when they look at the object and point to it and name it.

People raised in different families and different cultures have widely differing past experiences of the application of the word "evil". These past experiences are difficult to compare, and no two of them are exactly alike. Even when two incidents are very similar, cultural differences can cause them to have been labeled "evil" in one case and not another. These cases often lead to disagreements, because people imagine that they are arguing about what the thing is, not just what the thing is named, as in the case of pop and soda.

In short, evil is a word like any other, and its meaning is the meaning that you and the people you are speaking to assign to it.

Answer 8

i normally look at the other answers before i put my two cents in but i just had to jump in and try to answer now.................
evil is the absence of all that is good. it doesn't have a body or spirit or is it an entity, it is a creation of humans and has no bounds. it can exist for years festering before it releases it's
emotions,as ugly they may be. the nature of evil is to only to provide pain to all around them and with no conscience at all. the true nature of evil is to see that all is enveloped in it's pain, aches and the lack of goodness that all have in there being, their own self awareness, to be the "anti-evil".
to understand this only you as a person can resolve the evils in yourself and try to understand others.

Answer 9

Evil is not so diffrent from good. It's like Ying and Yang. Is black and white really that diffrent. Besides no one can determine what is good and what evil for everybody. In certain situations universal wrongs are right. Example: Murder is a universal wrong but in War, it is a universal right to kill.
Right is just the opposite of wrong, but if no one can jiustify what is a right or wrong, it really doesn't exist.

Answer 10

Evil.. is one of those subjective characterizations that we attach to people actions or even objects...
They are all created by our human culture.
Evil historical personalities: Genghis Kan, Hitler, Mussolini, Saddam Hussein, and a million more big and small tyrants.
Evil actions: Most wars, the Crusades, the Inquisition, terrorist attacks, etc..
Evil objects: Weapons of mass destruction, torturing devices, poison, most chemicals etc.

Answer 11

This is a deep question for this format. What is your reason for asking? There has always been good & evil in the world. There's a balance, the yin & the yan. I've studied several religions, & the Eastern ones make the most sense to me......Buddism, Taoism.