(December 31, 2014 at 12:51 pm)alpha male Wrote:(December 31, 2014 at 12:44 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Are you saying you don't know the difference?I do, but my definitions are based at least in part on what the person does. So, it's nonsensical to discuss a good person who does truly evil things. If I found out that the people who behead others on the internet were also good family men and gave to charity, I'd still consider them evil people, rather than good people doing evil things due to religion, or politics, or whatever.
I think the point that Weinberg was trying to make is that you take someone who normally does good things and expose him to religion (and probably of some extremist variety) and you'll see him start to do bad things. I don't think he means that the person doing bad things is still a good person.
I do agree with you, folks ought to be judged good or evil based on their actions, not their words.
