(May 25, 2009 at 4:36 am)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: Actually I think have such a mystical idea of evil is the cop out because it removes the specific need for personal responsibility.
I completely, totally and utterly agree with that statement. I discussed the same thing in secularchat.com some weeks ago.
People use the word 'Evil' as a cop-out for not remotely looking into why the 'evil people' did those 'evil things'.
Evil is a very shit word because it's such a cop-out. It's okay to say someone like Hitler was evil (because he was, in the sense he was very very very immoral and a very very bad person) but to simply dismiss it like that like: "He was evil", like "End of discussion" is a cop-out because it's not as simple as that, it's never as simple as that...why? Because like you said Kyu, and I have said too - there is no 'evil FORCE' in the air - it's all subjective.
To JUST dismiss someone or something as 'evil' is a cop-out to actually understanding the roots of the problem and the cause of this (entirely subjective) 'Evil'.
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