I think that perceived knowledge can motivate what you'd call evil. I mean if someone knows that America is evil and they know that killing themselves and taking down the world trade center is the best way to deal with the situation then that knowledge has spurred on that evil act.
But as an atheist who believed in evolution I think all our behaviors have primitive instincts at the root. Followed by more thoughtful planned behavior.
So when you look at a missile strike against civilians from another country, the root of that behavior is the same thing that drives the chimpanzee to throw a stick in the vague direction of whoever it wants to intimidate for reasons of aggression. It does take a lot of effort, forward planning and a fixated motivation towards an ideal to bomb someone which are functions of a more complex mind, but I'd say that under all that is the root cause, and that's the more primitive functions of the mind.
Obviously that doesn't take into account mental illness and there's lots of nuances to the subject of what causes evil or what evil even is or if it exists.
What your sister said about your mother even got me a bit emotional for a moment there.
But as an atheist who believed in evolution I think all our behaviors have primitive instincts at the root. Followed by more thoughtful planned behavior.
So when you look at a missile strike against civilians from another country, the root of that behavior is the same thing that drives the chimpanzee to throw a stick in the vague direction of whoever it wants to intimidate for reasons of aggression. It does take a lot of effort, forward planning and a fixated motivation towards an ideal to bomb someone which are functions of a more complex mind, but I'd say that under all that is the root cause, and that's the more primitive functions of the mind.
Obviously that doesn't take into account mental illness and there's lots of nuances to the subject of what causes evil or what evil even is or if it exists.
What your sister said about your mother even got me a bit emotional for a moment there.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
