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> evil is deliberately harming others Oh I can think of plenty of evil acts that don't involve deliberately harming others. But at the end of the day the evil
by unsupp0rted 4y ago
> evil is deliberately harming others
Oh I can think of plenty of evil acts that don't involve deliberately harming others.
But at the end of the day the evil-doer doesn't think they're evil and nothing I say will convince them otherwise. And indeed I can't be sure they're an evil person or a person merely committing evil acts or a person committing neutral acts that seem evil to me.
All I can be sure of is that I don't want or need to be around them. It does me no good to hate them or revel in their misfortune. I can be relieved when they stop doing whatever was objectionable to me though.
- ASalazarMX 4y agoYes, there are plenty of edge cases to philosophize about, but for the overwhelming majority of situations, if you intentionally harm others, you're being evil, regardless of how you rationalize it. This implies that everyone is both evil and good to some degree. Even if you debate the edge cases forever, most of the situations where significant harm was purposefully done would be clearly evil.