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does evil exist in its own right?

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does evil exist in its own right?
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RE: does evil exist in its own right?
October 2, 2012 at 4:13 pm
(October 2, 2012 at 3:55 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: evil does not exist. "evil" is simply a adjective attributed to a action that that society currently sees as immoral.
Whilst i agree with your main point, I would refine it into more relativist terms - it's not whether society views it as immoral, it's whether the individual making the observation does. In some places they still stone people to death - I think that's evil quite aside from what anyone else does.

It is a happy coincidence that most people do have a similar scale for what is bad and evil.
blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” – John 20:26-29
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does evil exist in its own right? - by Doubting_Thomas - October 2, 2012 at 3:10 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by JohnDG - October 2, 2012 at 3:15 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by TaraJo - October 2, 2012 at 3:48 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Napoléon - October 2, 2012 at 3:22 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Anomalocaris - October 2, 2012 at 3:27 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by TaraJo - October 2, 2012 at 3:44 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by JohnDG - October 2, 2012 at 3:45 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by JohnDG - October 2, 2012 at 4:02 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by JohnDG - October 2, 2012 at 4:21 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Doubting_Thomas - October 2, 2012 at 4:33 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Doubting_Thomas - October 2, 2012 at 4:13 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by JohnDG - October 2, 2012 at 5:06 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Polaris - October 2, 2012 at 10:30 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by The Grand Nudger - October 3, 2012 at 12:30 am
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by jonb - October 3, 2012 at 5:52 am
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Reforged - October 3, 2012 at 6:22 am
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by jonb - October 3, 2012 at 10:17 am
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Tino - October 3, 2012 at 10:47 am
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Whatkins - October 6, 2012 at 3:57 am
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Brian37 - October 6, 2012 at 4:39 am
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Whateverist - October 6, 2012 at 4:55 am
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Brian37 - October 6, 2012 at 5:10 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by MysticKnight - October 6, 2012 at 5:07 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by genkaus - October 8, 2012 at 2:05 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by The Grand Nudger - October 8, 2012 at 12:08 am
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Violet - October 8, 2012 at 4:31 am
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by KichigaiNeko - October 8, 2012 at 6:21 am
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Minimalist - October 8, 2012 at 2:19 pm
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Pip - October 14, 2012 at 2:33 am
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Angrboda - October 14, 2012 at 11:52 am
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Aroura - October 15, 2012 at 10:50 am
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by Darkstar - October 15, 2012 at 11:25 am
RE: does evil exist in its own right? - by The Grand Nudger - October 15, 2012 at 1:58 pm

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