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Evil: the privation of a good that should be present. It is the lack of a good that essentially belongs to a nature; the absence of a good that is natural and d

Evil: the privation of a good that should be present. It is the lack of a good that essentially belongs to a nature; the absence of a good that is natural and due to a being. Evil is therefore the absence of what ought to be there. https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/index.cfm?id=33437&randomterm=false https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/i... https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Evil https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913...

moeris 4y ago
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  > Like much of Christian thought, this is lazy to the extreme. > But it nonetheless fits this idiotic definition. Your personal bias is showing, to the point of going against the site guidelines; both 'When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."' and, y'know, literal religious flame warring. Also, you're either wrong or at least not correct; > Is ice cream that has thawed evil? No, rather obviously. You are of course welcome to argue that it's not, but yes, there are Christians who would/do make this exact argument; they might not claim that ice cream has the capacity to be willfully evil, but they would absolutely argue that ice cream melting is Wrong and a symptom of a Fallen world (in the sense of "fallen creation"), and that in a Good world ice cream would not melt.