― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link
Evil to me is shorthand for actions (and to a certain extent, thoughts*) that damage the ability of a society to function at its best. That's a really general description but I don't have the time (this is kind of a lie).
*I think stevem is OTM about the fact that not doing evil is a choice we make. While from an outside perspective there can be no thoughts that are evil, it is true enough that as individuals we can examine our thoughts and find them to be evil, which is the first step in not doing some of the things we probably think about doing.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 01:02 (twenty years ago) link
Would I be evil if I admitted that I find these late night programmes on suburban couples who engage in gang bangs by night weirdly fascinating?
I drink Coca Cola - am I supporting an evil empire?
― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 01:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 01:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 01:16 (twenty years ago) link
Seems to me most evil in fact is tied to selfishness of some kind
― ermes marana, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 01:23 (twenty years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 01:33 (twenty years ago) link
― ermes marana, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:45 (twenty years ago) link
― kephm, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:51 (twenty years ago) link
Not always of course, but it does bring to mind what Robert McNamara said regarding a nighttime firebombing of Japan by the U.S. that killed 100,000 people, admitting that if the U.S. lost he could have been prosecuted for war crimes.
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 03:12 (twenty years ago) link
So is most good.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 03:51 (twenty years ago) link
― ermes marana, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 10:03 (twenty years ago) link
Yes.
― Wintermuté (Wintermute), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 12:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Ithobel (starry), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 12:06 (twenty years ago) link
What I wonder is whether the pro-"EVIL" people think that if one doesn't have much interest in the word, one must be in denial. I mean I really really don't think this way about people ("Wait till your daughter gets murdered" yadda yadda). I just think the world and people in it get very fucked up at times. Even if it could be shown that Saddam Hussein and Ian Huntley were sitting there thinking 'mwah ha ha I'm so evil and I will take advantage of these woolly liberals', I really think I'd find it hard to see myself in some kind of cosmic battle of light against dark with them.
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:36 (twenty years ago) link
"Huntley was a pied paper figure, who lured children into his cave".
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:40 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:45 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:46 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:49 (twenty years ago) link
I don't think it's Huntley's fault he was messed up or insane or something. I was surprised by how much the police condemned him aswell on the documentary, it felt unprofessional to me.
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:51 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 18 December 2003 13:10 (twenty years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 05:57 (twenty years ago) link
How Evil Are You?
― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 06:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 06:57 (twenty years ago) link
Define it
― endymion, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link
i mean, this happens everywhere from folks in your town to those in your elected government. Seriously, what do one do about the evil in the world?
― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
hahaha! I love that song.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link
-- ermes marana (ermin...), December 17th, 2003
Bingo. To me the worst crimes in existence can always be boiled down to thievery of some sort (murder is the ultimate act of thievery).
― i thunk, Friday, 10 February 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Maria (Maria), Saturday, 11 February 2006 05:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Saturday, 11 February 2006 06:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Evil is the absence of good. Evil is a violation.
But I do like what Ghandi said about confronting what was evil in ourselves before we fought evil outside of ourselves.
Then again, I don't think this goes against the Christian myth. In fact I think it is consistent. Ghandi did say in his autobiography that he thought Christianity was perhaps the one perfectly true religion. Unfortunately he experienced racist Christians, and was disenfranchised as a result...
― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Saturday, 11 February 2006 06:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Saturday, 11 February 2006 07:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Couldnt we also say natural evil exists and that many good things flow from confronting it, ie it allows people to be at their very best (or worst), what about the role of evil in character formation, could we not argue that far from being a non issue evil allows ouselves to be fully human?
― Kiwi, Saturday, 11 February 2006 07:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Saturday, 11 February 2006 07:06 (eighteen years ago) link
That's evil,Evil is goin' on wrong.I am warnin' ya brother,You better watch your happy home.
Well, long way from home and,Can't sleep at all.You know another mule,Is kickin' in your stall.
(Spoken: You better catch him, 'cause somethin' wrong, in your home.)
Well, if ya call her on the telephone,And she answers aweful slow,Grab the first train smokin',If you have to hobo.
If you make it to your house,Knock on the front door,Run around to the back,You'll catch him just before he go.
That's evil,Evil is goin' on.I am warnin' ya brother,You better watch your happy home.
--"Evil" by Howlin' Wolf
― Mama Roux, Saturday, 11 February 2006 07:07 (eighteen years ago) link