It's a good question, and I think a lot of the answers are questionable.
Say if you think evil is sadism and causing needless suffering of any animal then you run into a few complications. What if someone sees the suffering they are causing as not being needless, or if someone sees suffering as being needless but there is a need for it?
The bottom line is that what is necessary punishment, harm and suffering is debatable, changes with time. It's debatable on more than one level also, what is necessary can be related to a persons standards. Standards of what they see as necessary to achieve in the future in their life and standards of living which they are at. Also related to how aware or paranoid a person is.
To put it basically, there's some situations where doing something cruel and seemingly unnecessary might have a cause.
The best example I can think of right now is the jackson family, was their dad being evil? He abused the family mentally and physically and forced rehearsals. They all became rich, some of them seemingly became a bit mentally disturbed though also. I don't know if it was good for them or not. They were living in pretty bad conditions. A black family in Chicago, 10 brothers and sisters living in a 2 bedroom house, but then they all turn successful and rich. I don't know if it was good for them to be rich but seemingly mentally disturbed or if they would have been better or worse living in a small house in chicago with a huge family doing whatever else they could do to survive outside of show business. I don't even know if their dad's discipline was the cause of their success but Micheal Jackson did credit it as being the cause.
If you think sadism is evil then you're probably arguing that a lot of humans and other animals are inherently evil.
If you look at the excitement on a cats face when it realizes it has the opportunity to kill and hurt something it isn't that much different from a mans face while playing call of duty or GTA if their character is beating a prostitute to death or watching the blood fly as bullets go through people. Also the ridiculous amount of consensual rough sex that goes on between humans leads me to think that maybe we enjoy this now because we just got used to doing it like that for thousands of years. I mean things like tying or chaining people up, role play rape and so on.
Say if you think evil is sadism and causing needless suffering of any animal then you run into a few complications. What if someone sees the suffering they are causing as not being needless, or if someone sees suffering as being needless but there is a need for it?
The bottom line is that what is necessary punishment, harm and suffering is debatable, changes with time. It's debatable on more than one level also, what is necessary can be related to a persons standards. Standards of what they see as necessary to achieve in the future in their life and standards of living which they are at. Also related to how aware or paranoid a person is.
To put it basically, there's some situations where doing something cruel and seemingly unnecessary might have a cause.
The best example I can think of right now is the jackson family, was their dad being evil? He abused the family mentally and physically and forced rehearsals. They all became rich, some of them seemingly became a bit mentally disturbed though also. I don't know if it was good for them or not. They were living in pretty bad conditions. A black family in Chicago, 10 brothers and sisters living in a 2 bedroom house, but then they all turn successful and rich. I don't know if it was good for them to be rich but seemingly mentally disturbed or if they would have been better or worse living in a small house in chicago with a huge family doing whatever else they could do to survive outside of show business. I don't even know if their dad's discipline was the cause of their success but Micheal Jackson did credit it as being the cause.
If you think sadism is evil then you're probably arguing that a lot of humans and other animals are inherently evil.
If you look at the excitement on a cats face when it realizes it has the opportunity to kill and hurt something it isn't that much different from a mans face while playing call of duty or GTA if their character is beating a prostitute to death or watching the blood fly as bullets go through people. Also the ridiculous amount of consensual rough sex that goes on between humans leads me to think that maybe we enjoy this now because we just got used to doing it like that for thousands of years. I mean things like tying or chaining people up, role play rape and so on.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
