2007-12-17 06:52:06 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Adolf Hitler and Suddam Hussein!
2007-12-17 06:55:06 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Sophie♥ 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe evil exists. It's a completely relative term to one's perspective. There are many things and people who have been considered evil, but all their reasoning can be traced back to nature vs nurture, their genetics interplaying with the thousands upon thousands of experiences that shape the personality throughout childhood and adolescence, and to a lesser extent adulthood. No one could say if they had the same genetics, and were raised in the same environment, that they would not think exactly the same, and thus do the same things they now consider evil.
Evil is not only relative in our times, it's constantly changing from a cultural perspective There have been cultures in the past where their have been plenty of justifiable cases for murder, and even when the act itself was just an everyday part of life. People who murdered in these cultures would not be viewed as evil, and they certainly wouldn't view themselves as doing an evil act.
robert b-Sin? LOL, isn't it in the old testament where it says that if you're child stays from his faith you are to stone him. What about if a woman is raped in a city and doesn't scream loud enough to be heard, I think the verdict is a stoning their to.
2007-12-17 16:02:31 · answer #2 · answered by Jett 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evil is the intention to do cause bad feelings.
It is the opposite of good.
Its that simple.
evil
O.E. yfel (Kentish evel) "bad, vicious," from P.Gmc. *ubilaz (cf. O.Saxon ubil, Goth. ubils), from PIE *upelo-, giving the word an original sense of "uppity, overreaching bounds" which slowly worsened. "In OE., as in all the other early Teut. langs., exc. Scandinavian, this word is the most comprehensive adjectival expression of disapproval, dislike or disparagement" [OED]. Evil was the word the Anglo-Saxons used where we would use bad, cruel, unskillful, defective (adj.), or harm, crime, misfortune, disease. The meaning "extreme moral wickedness" was in O.E., but did not become the main sense until 18c. Evil eye (L. oculus malus) was O.E. eage yfel.
2007-12-19 10:18:09 · answer #3 · answered by xenobyte72 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My definition of Evil: “Any perversion of the sacred trust that it is the duty of the strong to protect the weak.”
This is true for all kinds of strength. Physical strength, financial strength, intellectual strength, etc. etc… If you seek to exploit a disadvantaged innocent, you are committing a truly evil act.
Failure to prevent such acts when you are aware of them is also a lesser evil.
If you exploit a weakness of someone you are supposed to be protecting (a child, an elderly person, a patient in a hospital) you are committing the most egregious form of evil.
2007-12-17 14:55:13 · answer #4 · answered by Andrew Wiggin 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I used to naively think that there was no such thing as evil. Just a lack of humanity. Maybe it is an ability to see with clarity a goal and how to achieve that goal without the baggage of a conscience or principles to slow you.
2007-12-17 15:11:47 · answer #5 · answered by tomthewirish 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess.. for every one person it is a person or thing that they percieve to be wrong, inhumane, cruel, disgusting or just plain "evil" according to THEIR beliefs and THEIR values that they have come to have through THEIR own life experiences..
We believe Suddam to be evil, we believe Hitler to be evil because our own life experiences have shaped our own beliefs and values and their acts definately make us call them evil, cruel, disgusting.. But these men don't see themselves as evil, their beliefs and values that have been shaped from their life experiences. They believe that they are right, that they are not evil at all, their experiences have lead them to believe that other parties are evil - not themselves. Their own values and beliefs are telling them that they're okay, it is not them that is evil..
If you know what I mean..
HA I tend to ramble, I'm thinking that this does not make sense =0
2007-12-17 15:06:53 · answer #6 · answered by V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Serial killers like Columbine, John Wayne Gacy, etc.
2007-12-17 15:16:33 · answer #7 · answered by WooleyBooley again 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evil is that which has a net effect of destruction. Good creates.
2007-12-17 15:03:09 · answer #8 · answered by Robin the Brave 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evil is a result of sin. It is not equal to sin.
So, if you kill a child, you commit a sin, the child suffers evil.
2007-12-17 15:10:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've got to agree with the answer that Sophie submitted..I was gonna put those two forward. Also Myra Hindley.
2007-12-17 15:01:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋