Can someone be inherently evil?
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Re: Can someone be inherently evil?
by Woeler » March 16th, 2013, 9:00 pm
Regulus wrote:Who says 2 + 2 = 4?
Exactly.
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Re: Can someone be inherently evil?
by Regulus » March 16th, 2013, 9:19 pm
As another example: there's always going to be someone that says the moon is made of cheese, but the general consensus is that it is made of silicates. Does that one person's concept mean the moon can't exist?
Of course, not everyone is ever going to agree on anything. To say that nothing can exist because of such disagreements is beyond absurd.
That being said, as far as I'm concerned, my statement is correct. Something is not wrong unless it impacts another in a negative way, and something is not right unless it impacts another in a positive way. If something falls into both (or neither) categories, then it isn't necessarily one or the other.
Of course, not everyone is ever going to agree on anything. To say that nothing can exist because of such disagreements is beyond absurd.
That being said, as far as I'm concerned, my statement is correct. Something is not wrong unless it impacts another in a negative way, and something is not right unless it impacts another in a positive way. If something falls into both (or neither) categories, then it isn't necessarily one or the other.
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Re: Can someone be inherently evil?
by Woeler » March 16th, 2013, 9:29 pm
Your statement is correct for you, and that is as far as it gets. To claim that your statement would be universally correct would be unhumanly arrogant. Hitler's politics and tests on humans were the foundation of many medicines we have today, does that make it good? It sure saved more lives than he killed.
The moon is a materialistic example. Morality is an illusion in human consciousness.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist because we can't agree. I say it doesn't exist because it isn't real. It is an illusion, just like thoughts aren't real. We can use them, but they aren't real. They are illusions. There is no such thing as morality, there is only the illusion of morality.
The moon is a materialistic example. Morality is an illusion in human consciousness.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist because we can't agree. I say it doesn't exist because it isn't real. It is an illusion, just like thoughts aren't real. We can use them, but they aren't real. They are illusions. There is no such thing as morality, there is only the illusion of morality.
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Re: Can someone be inherently evil?
by Regulus » March 16th, 2013, 10:04 pm
Woeler wrote:Hitler's politics and tests on humans were the foundation of many medicines we have today, does that make it good? It sure saved more lives than he killed.
Regulus wrote:Something is not wrong unless it impacts another in a negative way, and something is not right unless it impacts another in a positive way. If something falls into both (or neither) categories, then it isn't necessarily one or the other.
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Re: Can someone be inherently evil?
by Woeler » March 16th, 2013, 10:20 pm
Regulus wrote:Woeler wrote:Hitler's politics and tests on humans were the foundation of many medicines we have today, does that make it good? It sure saved more lives than he killed.Regulus wrote:Something is not wrong unless it impacts another in a negative way, and something is not right unless it impacts another in a positive way. If something falls into both (or neither) categories, then it isn't necessarily one or the other.
Nothing is one or the other.
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Re: Can someone be inherently evil?
by Woeler » March 16th, 2013, 11:03 pm
Regulus wrote:Then why do anything?
Why not? That nothing ultimately matters doesn't mean you can't have fun.
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Re: Can someone be inherently evil?
by Regulus » March 16th, 2013, 11:09 pm
If nothing matters then having fun doesn't matter.
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Re: Can someone be inherently evil?
by Woeler » March 16th, 2013, 11:10 pm
Regulus wrote:If nothing matters then having fun doesn't matter.
But it sure feels like fun.
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