There is such EVIL in the world?

Question

I would be interested in reading comments from people of all religions, all across the political spectrum, from all over the world. In other words, people who are actual human beings and not evil monsters. Reading the story linked below made me both sad and angry. I don't understand how any real human being could feel otherwise. Is it realistic to hope that the world can be rid of such evil?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/22/iraq.boy/index.html

Answer 1

I believe in evil. Not necessarily on the religious scale...I believe that there are people who get good feelings out of doing things that are wrong, like killing, raping, abusing people or animals, etc. Most people would call these people sociopaths. Or anti-social. I wouldn't give these people an excuse. They're just plain evil. They know the difference between right and wrong. They just choose wrong all the time. Evil exists.

Answer 2

I’m not sure I can say anything of value about this, or make you feel any better. It’s sickening, horrific and incredibly sad.
Have these violent things always happened, is what I’d like to know? Or is it a result of people’s mentality now?
These violent acts seem to be more commonplace. But, I don’t know whether this is as a result of me watching more news/reading more papers as I get older, or that the media seem to publicise abhorrent acts of violence more at certain times of the year, (there seem to have been a heck of a lot of violent deaths reported in the UK, only in the last few months). I can only hope that it stops. But, I guess, however much we’d like to imagine everyone is inherently good, there are some evil people out there. What makes them do such things is incomprehensible.

Answer 3

What is sick is that this story didn't really effect me...and I don't mean it like I don't care.
I've been reading into the worlds troubles lately, and this isn't very uncommon. I'm so torn by all of these horrible things that are done to children, I have no energy left to even feel emotion about it. Poor little guy.
Who thinks that things like this are ever even a possible idea? Who says, hey lets set a child on fire? Or give a child ecstacy? or send them to 'shock therepy' schools because they are mentally retarded or misbehave extremely?

I hate the world.

I seriously don't think that there will ever be peace while humans have emotions. People are sick, and there is too much population. There is no way to control and help the people who are sick in the head that do these kinds of things to other people.

Answer 4

Yes, there is evil in this world unfortunately. Billy Joel sang evil has been burning as long as the world has been turning. In other words, no way to stop it completely. There are at least 6 billion people on earth. The media can easily search out sensational events because they know people watch horrible things. There is evil, but there are a lot of good things as well.

Answer 5

Most muslims are not evil people. This is because they do not study, or only pay lip service to their faith. Islam is evil. The proof is in their own scripture, of which most muslims are ignorant.

A critique of Islam may be condemned from any angle as offensive, racist, hatemongering, intolerant, and unnecessarily violent. That condemnation would rightly be directed to the bits of the critique that directly quote Islamic scripture.

Read it for yourself. It's obvious why the Koran was forbidden to infidels for so many centuries, and why even most muslims are only allowed to recite it in the original arabic -- a language understood by only a very small number of people. The Imams don't even want their followers to know the bits that they aren't telling you about.

I'm sure this answer will get me death threats, as usual. Can any of you hateful reactionaries simply show me where I am misreading this "perfect" text?

Answer 6

You get use to it and attempt to make the wonderful of it. of direction some Christians will say that individuals have stopped believing in god because of the fact the clarification in the back of evil yet then turn around with the assumption of unfastened will to describe why undesirable issues ensue.

Answer 7

Don't sweat it, there is a 50-50 chance of this boy growing up becoming some kind of extraordinary person due to his suffering. I really feel that he will become stronger and more compassionate because of his circumstance (I hope he becomes a cop). Don't feel bad for him, according to Buddhist philosophy, he is here to learn from this experience for the rest of his life and it will free him from this suffering in the next.....

Answer 8

humans are capable of greatness and directly proportional evil too. It is unconscionable that one hurts small children - there is no religious explanation for it - it is our very instinct to protect the weak.

I'm sure there are a complex set of circumstances that prompt some individuals to be this horrible.

Answer 9

the reason why there is so much evil in the world because there are too many selfish people out there that think that their way is the only way and put other's down

Answer 10

You and me both. I didn't even go as far as looking at the actual link, just the heading made me ill. We are supposed to protect children and all adults do is harm them. Rest assured, one day they will have to answer to God for all their abominations.