Quote Originally Posted by chicken_dance0482
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we as humans are not capable of defining evil... (see excerpt from an autobiography i had to write)
Now to be philosophical, what is evil? By definition evil is:

· noun: morally objectionable behavior

· noun: the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice (Example: "Attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world")

· noun: that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune (Example: "The evil that men do lives after them")

· adjective: tending to cause great harm

· adjective: morally bad or wrong (Example: "Evil purposes")

· adjective: having the nature of vice

· adjective: having or exerting a malignant influence



but what makes one person or action evil. Is it the action itself or the thought behind the action? If two children are at play and one of the children shoots the other, is the child holding the gun evil? What about the gun itself? The owner of the gun? The game the child was playing? Or do we just blame society and say the incident was unavoidable. How do we know the child was not inherently evil? The answer, we don’t.
Excellent.