Good and Evil..not a religious question!

[star-warrior]

I think it has a lot to do with our own moral values and the perception of events and actions around us. We can either work in harmony with each other by some underlying social agreement as to what are the rules to live by, or go against those conventions and be labelled as bad.

As for the supernatural, I'm not a believer. Evil and manifestations of evil seem to be in the eye of the beholder. That's why I think religion is a pile of crock.

The dinosaurs didn't have Jesus, and they lived millions of years, fifty or sixty times longer than we humans have been on earth. To them, eating each other and avoiding eaching other weren't manifestations of evil, but of necessity to survive.

 

[Riverrick]

That's a great post, Star-warrior. Basically, that's what I wanted to say.

I don't believe there is such thing as good and evil. Its all in my perception and my reaction to events. If I don't like something and don't want it to happen to me, I'll consider it bad.

But does evil exist as an entity of its own, somehow permeating individuals and taking over their lives? No, I don't think so. There seems to be an explanation for most of this kind of behavior, whether its psychological, environmental, or cultural.

 

[lapafrax]

I don't think good or evil are absolutes, as such. In that sense, I'm more of a moral relativist. That doesn't mean I think anything goes morally, just that morality is relative to each society or time period.

Most things in life anyhow are shades of grey. Not everything is black and white.

 

[Ginge]

I don't quite agree with everthing that has been said, but isn't it just animal instinct that the fittest will survive, or is it that man has evolved to believe in something else, for instance Why is man more intelligent than any other species on this planet.

but Do i believe that absolute evil permeates our world? Yes
But i also believe that good also permeates this world to combat the evil

 

[KentuckyPython]

There's both good and evil in everything.

 

[kallipolis]

Evil is the revelation of all that opposes the creative expression of human life.
Evil can only express its reality within the reality of the life that is able to perceive its awareness as a sentient life form.

To imagine evil as an entity of its own existence, is to presume that evil is the manifestation of its own creation, apart from the created being that is capable of creating evil. That human life is manifestly able to commit acts against its well being, is to recognise that evil is always the result of an action of a human person who chooses to act in its apparent self interest, against the well being of the human family.

Evil as a manifestation in its own right, is the thought that the opposing force that dictates negative behaviour in a human being, exists as a separate sentient entity apart from homo sapiens. There is good reason to believe that many human beings blame their self destructive behaviour on anything but them self.

 

[RationalLunacy]

I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN BY RELIGIOUS PETO????

You made me spray a mouthful of coffee all over my monitor!

 

[Riverrick]

There is good reason to believe that many human beings blame their self destructive behaviour on anything but them self.

Agree. The old "I was tempted" excuse.

 

[Swellegant]

I don't really believe evil is a thing... it is an absence, the absence of good, as dark is nothing but an absence of light. However, there is no such thing as complete or perfect good (or evil, obviously)... it's all on a continuum.

 

[Kurn]

Good and Evil are functional absolutes. This is a status that has evolved as we have.