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There's not a limited number of slots for who gets to be called evil. It's a threshold, not a competition. Sometimes the threshold changes, but crossing it is
by tux3 5y ago
There's not a limited number of slots for who gets to be called evil.
It's a threshold, not a competition. Sometimes the threshold changes, but crossing it is enough. No matter that other people might be even worse.
- bradleyjg 5y agoIndeed not. Contemporary society has infinite capacity for moral condemnation. Is black and white thinking considered a compliment now?
- RHSeeger 5y agoIt's not black and white thinking, it's a threshold, as stated. For an average income person - A Porsche is expensive - A Ferrari is expensive The fact that a Ferrari costs a lot more than a Porsche does not make a Porsche "not expensive", because there is a line (for the buyer) beyond which they consider a car expensive. There's problem a grey are below that line in which a car may cost more than they are comfortable spending, but have enough useful features that they will consider sacrificing for it. And there is a large area to the right of the expensive threshold where a lot of such cars lie. The fact that lots of cars are past the "expensive" threshold for someone doesn't mean they're thinking in black and white.
- renewiltord 5y agoThis is true. It’s a threshold. So sometimes when I think to myself “Should I be spending time fighting to ensure people are not dying at the hands of a fundamentalist religious organization or should I be spending my time lowering prices for a high end graphics editor?” I always try to remember that these are equivalent tasks. It doesn’t matter which I do. I am bringing the same amount of good to the world.
- tux3 5y agoPears are sweet. Yet Coca-Cola is sweeter. Both deserve the label, that doesn't mean some things can't be even sweeter than other. Similarly, there are shades of evil. Inventing some new greater evil does not invalidate the regular kind.
- renewiltord 5y agoA fair point, and I must concede to it.
- Macha 5y agoWere I to crack Photoshop and provide it to 10s to 100s of business in my local city, should Adobe stay quiet and not complain, because there are people doing the same and uploading it to pirate bay where it's available to millions? I think the answer is clearly not. There is no reason why it should be invalid to criticise any act, just because it is not the worst act.
- renewiltord 5y agoYou are evil for saying “doing to the same”. In a categorical sense, you and Hitler are similar: eeevilll