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RE: Good and Evil?

in #writing2 years ago

Not really because I said in my OP I'm trying not to see evil.
If you were playing a board game or a video game it might be helpful and I've done similar before in games, but in a real world context... With the people in power using it against innocent people, it does seem immoral to me or corrupt/misguided.
This can get a bit into semantics at this point, though I tend to think of evil in this context as some kind of spiritual Christian concept as opposed to things that humans just dislike or are averse to. For example I can dislike something without thinking it's evil. Hopefully that makes sense.

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 2 years ago  Reveal Comment

Why do you think evil means disliked?

I don't. I think maybe you misread what I said.
However, I wanted to get more familiar with the word so I looked at the etymology and it says this... "In Old English and other older Germanic languages other than Scandinavian, "this word is the most comprehensive adjectival expression of disapproval, dislike or disparagement", so it does appear to be a high level of dislike in the eyes of some.

How is it misguided, like good intentions overriding immoral means?

Well, that's my subjective opinion and I think morality is subjective, it's possible there is a universal morality and I'm very open minded to that, however I don't pretend to have all the answers or know everything so I try to come at it from a subjective perspective and in my subjective perspective I feel like "love" and "honor" are preferable, so to me anyone who doesn't choose love and honor are misguided... And, I myself am misguided sometimes... I don't pretend to be perfect, though I think it's wise to try to strive for love and honor and those who don't are misguided in my opinion. Hope that answers your question.

Thanks for the link. Looks like quite a read and my eyes aren't handling staring at the computer screen for long period of time these days so I'll have to put it in the voice to speech app thingy and listen to it sometime.

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