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Evil and suffering.
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RE: Evil and suffering.
March 15, 2014 at 1:48 am (This post was last modified: March 15, 2014 at 1:50 am by bennyboy.)
(March 14, 2014 at 7:40 am)Alex K Wrote:
(March 14, 2014 at 7:21 am)bennyboy Wrote: Here's a question: if someone has a strong social outlook and idealistic ideas, and consistently acts on them, are they evil? What, for example, about someone who stalks serial rapists and kills them in their sleep?

I'll answer it thusly: I find the words good and evil useless and don't even try to apply it to anything. What you describe is an ethical dilemma. You can discuss it at length, adding simplistic labels like good and evil does not help at all.
Thusly? Are you being ironical, or did you mean to use that word? Tongue

Good and evil are perfectly useful words. My wife is good, and my crazy ex-girlfriends are evil bitches.
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Evil and suffering. - by tor - March 13, 2014 at 6:38 am
RE: Evil and suffering. - by paulpablo - March 13, 2014 at 6:48 am
RE: Evil and suffering. - by truthBtold - March 13, 2014 at 6:52 am
RE: Evil and suffering. - by Alex K - March 13, 2014 at 7:12 am
RE: Evil and suffering. - by Mudhammam - March 13, 2014 at 7:27 am
RE: Evil and suffering. - by bennyboy - March 13, 2014 at 8:44 am
RE: Evil and suffering. - by Mudhammam - March 13, 2014 at 2:10 pm
RE: Evil and suffering. - by bennyboy - March 14, 2014 at 7:21 am
RE: Evil and suffering. - by Alex K - March 14, 2014 at 7:40 am
RE: Evil and suffering. - by bennyboy - March 15, 2014 at 1:48 am
RE: Evil and suffering. - by pocaracas - March 13, 2014 at 9:47 am
RE: Evil and suffering. - by Minimalist - March 13, 2014 at 1:28 pm
RE: Evil and suffering. - by Napoléon - March 13, 2014 at 2:17 pm
RE: Evil and suffering. - by My imaginary friend is GOD - March 13, 2014 at 2:20 pm
RE: Evil and suffering. - by truthBtold - March 13, 2014 at 2:21 pm
RE: Evil and suffering. - by Zen Badger - March 14, 2014 at 8:43 am
RE: Evil and suffering. - by Mudhammam - March 14, 2014 at 1:16 pm
RE: Evil and suffering. - by Ryantology - March 14, 2014 at 2:43 pm
RE: Evil and suffering. - by Cato - March 15, 2014 at 1:57 am
RE: Evil and suffering. - by Bob Kelso - March 15, 2014 at 3:05 am
RE: Evil and suffering. - by Rabb Allah - March 20, 2014 at 1:46 am
RE: Evil and suffering. - by Phatt Matt s - March 23, 2014 at 7:18 pm
RE: Evil and suffering. - by tor - March 23, 2014 at 7:19 pm
RE: Evil and suffering. - by Phatt Matt s - March 23, 2014 at 7:28 pm
RE: Evil and suffering. - by Mudhammam - March 23, 2014 at 11:12 pm
RE: Evil and suffering. - by tor - March 23, 2014 at 11:17 pm
RE: Evil and suffering. - by Mudhammam - March 23, 2014 at 11:21 pm
RE: Evil and suffering. - by My imaginary friend is GOD - March 23, 2014 at 11:20 pm

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