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> There is evil in the world. The argument here isn't that the people have the right to defend themselves. The argument here is that a person wearing a suicide
by lev99 8y ago
> There is evil in the world.
The argument here isn't that the people have the right to defend themselves. The argument here is that a person wearing a suicide vest is bad and deserves to die for being bad. They are evil. This argument is used by governments and religions throughout history to justify killing. Often by both sides of a conflict. It's a worn out argument, old and tired. Who is the judge of what is evil? The only long standing definition for evil involves religious context to believe. Anything else is poorly defined, not widely agreed upon, or hard to test against.
'Evil-skeptics give three main reasons to abandon the concept of evil: (1) the concept of evil involves unwarranted metaphysical commitments to dark spirits, the supernatural, or the devil; (2) the concept of evil is useless because it lacks explanatory power; and (3) the concept of evil can be harmful or dangerous when used in moral, political, and legal contexts, and so, it should not be used in those contexts, if at all.'[0]
[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/concept-evil/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/concept-evil/
- olleromam91 8y agoAsk the question, US or THEM. Those who want to defend the things they love from THEM, will always choose US over THEM. Simple. One can argue that "it doesn't have to be that way" but sadly there are millions of years of biology to prove that incorrect.
- lev99 8y agoThe argument that we should defend ourselves or that we should kill our enemies does not require the existence of evil.