(September 7, 2014 at 10:34 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(September 7, 2014 at 7:30 am)Madness20 Wrote: My take is that evil might not actually exist, at all. I mean, it's kind of hard to even define evil, and for every act you might call "evil" there's a bigger or another context in which the same act dictates the survival of a majority, so evil actually is a matter of moral subjectivity and emotional appeal, on wars for instance, both sides usually regard the other as evil.I'm pretty sure sending women and children to the gas chambers because of their blood line and inability to participate in hard labor is evil in the purest sense of the word.
I think what exists is twisted psychologies, psychiatric disorders and instabilities that lead some "agressors" to their acts, but i would say that all of these people can't really be called "evil" as for them, there's a rational explanation/motivation for their acts that are actually not so "evil", they are just , "peanuts".
Or maybe evil is to empathy as cold is to heat. When some villain kills women and children as an expedience we are aghast at the lack of human feeling. But does that mean there is actually something else driving that person which is evil? Maybe it is only their failure to take the value of life into account. Their actual goals may not be anything we'd call evil in themselves. It may just be their indifference to the ensuing suffering which "evil" refers to. Sort of like the choices of so many corporations.
