RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
September 7, 2014 at 4:55 pm
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2014 at 4:56 pm by Madness20.)
(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".
What i'm saying is that obviously people that do that kind of crimes usually have a complete different psychology and prejudice and see themselves as actually doing a favor for humanity or their group. Be it mental diseases, irrational hatred, ideology, religion , or other foundation for such behaviour, the fact is most of them are mechanisms of survival, and without a doubt humans always did crimes because it's potentially evolutionary advantage, even animals kill offsprings of other males just for the sake of their own offspring.
Believe it or not, when the nazis put people in gas chambers, they trully thought it was a good idea.