RE: If God of Abraham is true, then why didnt he use his intelligent design to make a new
June 27, 2017 at 3:06 pm
(June 27, 2017 at 2:02 pm)Cyberman Wrote:(June 27, 2017 at 1:21 pm)SteveII Wrote: Thank you for correcting my phrasing. I agree with you.
I will just expand on this, now that I'm not on my mobile.
Neutrality in the face of evil can be at least as evil, if only in intent. For instance, if I closed the door on a rapist and leave him to his act, knowing what suffering is occurring but choosing to do nothing about it, I would be just as culpable as the rapist (if not more so).
I don't think there is a comparable state in the face of good.
(Bonus kudos to anyone spotting the inadvertent Doctor Who reference.)
In which case the neutrality is still the deprivation of good--the good being harm avoidance (brotherly love for your neighbor).
I think evil can be used to describe an action or a result. In some cases, the actions were not evil (because of intent), but the result may have been (because of some lasting deprivation of good). If this is the case, then neutrality when you have information that an otherwise good action might result in an evil result, would in fact be evil to remain neutral. Does that make sense?