RE: Is Rape Natural? Part 2, 2014 Edition
August 1, 2014 at 4:19 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2014 at 4:21 pm by Napoléon.)
(August 1, 2014 at 10:28 am)A Theist Wrote: It has nothing to do with religious motivation. A lot of non-religious people would agree with the pure evil assessment.
I didn't necessarily say it had anything to do with being religious, I just said I can understand why religious people would believe in terms such as 'pure evil'. Considering the fact you guys believe in an absolute morality, I don't believe in an absolute morality...
Quote:Purely evil people are those who refuse to excercise any self control over their urges and rather act out their violent fantasies on hapless victims. Humans have the capacity to exercise restraint, to choose to do evil, choose to excerise self-control, and choose to do good. Sociopaths, as was Ted Bundy, totally sell themselves over to their own evil devises, devoid of any sympathy, sorrow, or regret. No boogie man involved, except for themselves....
Does that make them 'pure evil' though? The term is kinda meaningless as far as I'm concerned. No one is pure evil. That's a label we as humans apply to things. Morality is a human concept. The universe doesn't think in terms of good and evil, shit just happens. Most the shit that happens in the universe is destructive. If a comet smashed into us and obliterated everything on Earth, does that mean the comet is pure evil? I mean, it's not showing any remorse...
I look at it as though the comet is just doing shit the universe has deigned it to do. It's not in control of its actions.
Now there is ofcourse a difference between something that can think and a something that can't, but, the universe in general doesn't care about that difference; we do.
The universe itself has no concept of morality, it's only us that ascribes these notions of good and bad to things. A label of 'pure evil' implies that such a person would only know evil, like it is their goal, their purpose, their very meaning of living. I don't think anyone is truly like that, I think people act like assholes because chemical and biological processes play out in such a way that they think like assholes and in turn act like them. Even the most evil people still have the capacity to do something that we might deem as 'good' IMHO.
