What is your (prefered) definition of evil?

Started by Martinus, March 30, 2016, 09:57:24 AM

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Razgovory

#75
March 30, 2016, 11:42:56 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 30, 2016, 11:40:22 PM
Have you tried any of his hair products?

I did see Gattaca.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Martinus

#76
March 30, 2016, 11:44:46 PM
Quote from: PDH on March 30, 2016, 04:16:17 PM
Evil is live backwards.

Yup. Koyaanisqatsi.

Richard Hakluyt

#77
March 31, 2016, 05:46:33 AM
Rats live on no evil star.

Agelastus

#78
March 31, 2016, 08:03:07 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on March 31, 2016, 05:46:33 AM
Rats live on no evil star.

:D

I'm beginning to rue the absence of a "like" button on this board.
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#79
March 31, 2016, 08:36:37 AM
Quote from: 11B4V on March 30, 2016, 07:52:50 PM
Quote from: Martinus on March 30, 2016, 09:57:24 AM
If you were to define evil in the simplest and at the same time more accurate way, how would you do it (you do not have to be original - it could be someone else's definition).
Anyways back to the OP's question.
Ill use a quote.

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The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. No other religion ever considered it necessary to destroy others because they did not share the same beliefs. At worst, another man's belief might inspire amusement or contempt—the Egyptians and their animal gods, for instance. Yet those who worshipped the Bull did not try to murder those who worshipped the Snake, or to convert them by force from Snake to Bull. No evil ever entered the world quite so vividly or on such a vast scale as Christianity did.
That's a bunch of horsepucky anti-Christian bullshit. Lots of religions believe in destroying non-believers, and plenty of Christian states did not ever try to destroy non-Christians.
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Norgy

#80
March 31, 2016, 09:41:45 AM
Quote from: Agelastus on March 31, 2016, 08:03:07 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on March 31, 2016, 05:46:33 AM
Rats live on no evil star.

:D

I'm beginning to rue the absence of a "like" button on this board.

I've missed that for some time.
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Malthus

#81
March 31, 2016, 11:07:13 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on March 31, 2016, 05:46:33 AM
Rats live on no evil star.

Fritz Leiber uses this one in one of his Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories, I believe.  ;)
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Siege

#82
March 31, 2016, 02:44:39 PM
Quote from: Martinus on March 30, 2016, 09:57:24 AM
If you were to define evil in the simplest and at the same time more accurate way, how would you do it (you do not have to be original - it could be someone else's definition).

Islam


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Richard Hakluyt

#83
March 31, 2016, 04:30:55 PM
Quote from: Malthus on March 31, 2016, 11:07:13 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on March 31, 2016, 05:46:33 AM
Rats live on no evil star.

Fritz Leiber uses this one in one of his Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories, I believe.  ;)

I think he may well have done, it has been hanging about in the recesses of my mind for some decades, unsure who first thought of it.

Razgovory

#84
March 31, 2016, 04:56:26 PM
Quote from: Siege on March 31, 2016, 02:44:39 PM
Quote from: Martinus on March 30, 2016, 09:57:24 AM
If you were to define evil in the simplest and at the same time more accurate way, how would you do it (you do not have to be original - it could be someone else's definition).

Islam

So there was no evil before that?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Ed Anger

#85
March 31, 2016, 06:12:00 PM
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Valmy

#86
March 31, 2016, 06:12:10 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 31, 2016, 04:56:26 PM
So there was no evil before that?

Well no before them it was the Romans
And before them the Greeks
And before them the Babylonians
And before them the Assyrians
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LaCroix

#87
April 01, 2016, 12:06:25 AM
Quote from: Malthus on March 30, 2016, 10:02:23 AM
To my mind, evil basically consists of treating people as things.

but a lot of good can (and I'm sure has) come out of treating people as things/objects. evil exists more when people are treated as things in a bad context (which is subjective)

Martinus

#88
April 01, 2016, 12:34:16 AM
Quote from: LaCroix on April 01, 2016, 12:06:25 AM
Quote from: Malthus on March 30, 2016, 10:02:23 AM
To my mind, evil basically consists of treating people as things.

but a lot of good can (and I'm sure has) come out of treating people as things/objects. evil exists more when people are treated as things in a bad context (which is subjective)

Not really.

The Brain

#89
April 01, 2016, 02:47:42 AM
Quote from: Martinus on April 01, 2016, 12:34:16 AM
Quote from: LaCroix on April 01, 2016, 12:06:25 AM
Quote from: Malthus on March 30, 2016, 10:02:23 AM
To my mind, evil basically consists of treating people as things.

but a lot of good can (and I'm sure has) come out of treating people as things/objects. evil exists more when people are treated as things in a bad context (which is subjective)

Not really.

What about when you treat one of your boyfriends as a garden hose with baseball?
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