ric wrote:
irrepressible wrote:
If you had grown up in an environment that taught to hate "the enemy", like a neighboring country, and you hated the people so much
that it led to you killing one of them for no reason other than the hatred of them, is that an act of evil, an evil thing to do? I'm kind of confusing myself
I think pure evil is rare.
That is a action of malice resulting from hatred,...................some define that as a evil act. but is it?
but a action created a result but if you just hated your enemy and never acted out, you could never be called evil by anyone, so evil doesn't exist without a action to define it ....Right?
Interesting point...but I believe(and it's just my opinion) that evil doesn't need action to exist. If someone was evil; they were that way before they acted on it. It wasn't like the pedophile was a good person before he molested a child; he was already evil before acting on it. Jefferey Dahmer was evil before he first tortured an animal...killed a human.
For me, the lack of empathy & compassion are indicative of evil. Not "feeling" for others is a sort of inaction. Are thoughts considered action? A person could delight in evil thoughts or take pleasure in the misery of others without physically "doing" anything. It would still be evil in my eyes.
To those who do not believe evil exists....you have probably never been in it's presence![/quote]
That's what I would like you to define that type of evil, is it a sense, a feeling of dread, or what?
Demonic possession act's out if you believe it's not just seizures or a act, but if someone is just there and not doing anything what defines evil?, A feeling you get from them or what.....................
I have been experimenting with a thing I call
NON reaction which is not good thought or bad just being without some impulsiveness we normally are driven by, one thing I see you save money lol
Basically you let the outside world determine you daily tasks, without you having a impulse craving or need, and I have observed how other people really are when you do this experiment, you see their nature more clearly. The good and bad traits they have when your able to put your
self gratification or impulses on the back burning and see
where the world takes you naturally