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Does "Evil" Exist?

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I think CB was asking about the essence of evil. That sounds like a metaphysical question Socrates attempted. Really there's no point to it.

For the rest of it Pico answered it well.

As for Bush calling Iran evil, well that's simply an attempt to fool and confuse a dumbed down public. Also to rationalize ones own evil intentions.
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The Bush thing is simply an example of self interest as a tool for labeling some act or idea that goes against it as evil. The entire idea of evil comes down to artificial societal rules. It's all based on a subjective perception. Slavery is a good example of how societal laws effect the perception of morality and the concept of "evil." It was perfectly acceptable to beat, kill, or rape slaves. That has all changed in today's world and rightfully so. However, it symbolizes how the cultural environment and laws of the land dictate morality. It's not some ingrained struggle from some higher being that we contend with. The idea of evil is our own creation as it relates to the rules of our society. Yet, its conception comes as a principle of religious doctrine and those that choose to still buy into the mandates of organized religion are compelled to continue to believe that it is a legitimate force of nature. Evil then simply becomes a lazy adjective. It is a word that ubiquitously describes many things yet fails to identify the true nature and intentions of any act or being.
 
deep thoughts in this thread... nice

when it comes down to it, its a semantical and relativistic question, that no even one will agree with.

by and large every person on the planet CONSTRUCTS what their opinion of "evil" and "good" is whether they use or even know those words is besides the point.

by and large everyone's cultures, laws, and even religions form these constructs.

more scientifically you can use the example of "cold" and "dark"

do these two things "exist"???

no they don't...

Cold is just the human construct to label to the absence of heat. its just a handy descriptive adjective. Absolute Zero is the complete absence of heat.

darks is another human construct to label the absence of light. you can't "create" dark out of somthing... you can only take light away or block it out.

Evil in its varying degrees exists in the absence of what any one person or people group defines as "good", "normal", "acceptable" ect

you could go round and round in circles forever
 
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