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postmortem !!Qe8ScDbX+ started this discussion 14 years ago#21,747
Okay, so I was wondering what the difference between something being "bad", and something being "evil" are. I've always thought of evil being something that's sort of supernatural, demons are evil for example.
But in real life, I guess evil is anything that's bad for the sake of bad, bad with bad intent. Like hurricanes are bad, but they aren't evil, they don't have any intent, they're not even sentient. Hitler wasn't even evil, because he thought what he was doing was indeed right.
Even people like serial killers kill and torture people for reasons other than just doing evil. (Sexual, revenge, whatever).
So what is evil to you? And is there anyone that actually is evil?
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 21 minutes later, 49 minutes after the original post[^][v]#344,683
Evil is a privation of good.
Gil !z9/naRmOr. joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 7 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#344,747
Good and Evil are extremely polar terms used to describe a non polarized concept. Humans tend to like things described in black and white, but so many concepts are grey. Yin and yang would be the closest human approximate to the true face of good and evil. Every human being has equal potential to be good or evil. Remember that Hitler, under different circumstances, could have been an artist.