RE: Classic
June 7, 2013 at 10:50 am
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2013 at 10:50 am by Rahul.)
(June 7, 2013 at 10:38 am)John V Wrote: You haven't removed the problem. You'd still have IYO an evil person with an evil position, not a good person with an evil position.
This is an entirely different discussion we need to hash out.
I don't think that someone that commits one evil act or even several evil acts is an evil person. My mother is a very good woman. But she would happily commit the evil act of preventing equal rights to homosexuals.
How does a good person commit an evil act and still be a good person?
Because they don't see it as an evil act.
It's all about intent really. If you intend to do something for the sole purpose of causing mental, physical, or financial harm to someone, yeah you're evil.
If your only intention is to uphold what you believe to be god's desires on earth, you are a good person using religion to justify commiting an evil act without even seeing it as an evil act.
That's how this whole giving your allegience to a power you believe to be greater than yourself works for commiting evil.
Evil people don't need to justify their evil actions. They just fucking do it.