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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 6, 2012 at 5:10 pm
(October 6, 2012 at 4:55 am)whateverist Wrote: Nope, only evil in context.
Yes and no which makes it contextual.

Like I said, when someone is sane, for example. You fuck with their child and they will react. If someone comes at you with a knife or a gun, you react.

The context is who is doing what and why, but the reaction is overlaping in fight or flight.

Our evolution favors survival and "evil" is IN CONTEXT anything that threatens that survival.

It can only be contextual on a very superficial label based tribal issue. But we all have the same common evolutionary drive in want of food, shelter, means of survival and being free from personal physical harm.

I don't think we are really on different pages here.

If anything I could call the utlimate evil would be our own credulity and lack of introspection that we are the same species capable of the same actions both good and bad.
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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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