What is evil?

I'm not "just" catagorizing him as evil. I'm taking into accounts his horrible actions that were indeed overly evil in nature. Just because he may have had some decency in him doesn't mean he still can't be evil in nature. All we have to go on is hitlers actions, and needless to say, they were indeed evil.

"To me evil is doing something intentionally when you know it is wrong. I think we are instilled with morals from birth, where we know what is good and what is bad, right and wrong, we learn from those around us, you know the drill "Don't take what isn't yours, or don't push your sister, etc etc.". Knowing fully well you are doing something you were taught is wrong is evil in my opinion."

I believe this statement would hold true for Hitler, wouldn't you agree? Surely he knew that killing millions of people out of spite is wrong. "don't kill people" is one of the most basic laws of human decency, the fact that he was able to kill so many people is to me proof that he is indeed evil.

I don't think people themselves are evil, I think it's the act(s) they do that are evil. Like BF said, people know they shouldn't kill or rape people; but they do it anyways. So I don't think it's the person themself that has the problem, it's always (unless they're mentally ill or something like that) something external that drives them to do it. Even if it's just something tiny that sets off a chain reaction in a person's mind, causing them to eventually come up with such and such idea, and do something evil, it started externally.

Also, I don't think ideas can be evil. The idea itself doesn't hurt anybody except for maybe yourself as long as it stays locked up nice and safe in your mind. It's when you go acting on it, in whatever way, that it becomes harmful and evil.

But if you know fully well this idea is frowned upon is it not evil then?

evil is how hairy i am ✅

but seriously evil is seen differently amongst different people. hitler's Rise for Aryans was not evil for his perspective.

No, because like I said, it doesn't hurt anybody as long as it stays in your own mind and you don't act on it. Everybody has "evil" thoughts now and then, but if ideas could be evil, than theoretically, everybody on earth could be considered evil to some extent.

Also, you can't control a thought. You can contain it, and keep yourself from doing something because of it, but you can't stop it from getting there.

Originally posted by HockeyHorror
evil is how hairy i am ✅

but seriously evil is seen differently amongst different people. hitler's Rise for Aryans was not evil for his perspective.

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Originally posted by HockeyHorror
evil is how hairy i am ✅

but seriously evil is seen differently amongst different people. hitler's Rise for Aryans was not evil for his perspective.

But to his perspective it was okay to kill several million people, thus proving his theory, and perspective were horribly incorrect and simply evil.

Originally posted by yerssot
sin
1. A transgression of a religious or moral law, especially when deliberate.
2. Theology.
a. Deliberate disobedience to the known will of God.
b. A condition of estrangement from God resulting from such disobedience.
3. Something regarded as being shameful, deplorable, or utterly wrong.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sin

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and over here a sin is in around 99.99% of the cases religiously inspired 😛

😛 and over here it's just something that you do wrong 😄 kinda

theology is a sin? 🤨

evil is hatred hatred sprouts darkness darkness drives people to do things like murder or.....in some cases world domination.....very rare though. but other then that i think that evil is too stereotypical i mean everyone thinks that the bad guy must wear black have an assortment of powerful weapons and has to have a repose of world domination (note i have no idea what repose means..lol) and thats why i like grand theft auto because the mauin character is basically a mad killer that does and sells drugs as well as being a hired hitman but in vice city he wears a bright blue.........which could be just as evil as the color black but people stereotype evil to the color black

Originally posted by Darth Revan
No, because like I said, it doesn't hurt anybody as long as it stays in your own mind and you don't act on it. Everybody has "evil" thoughts now and then, but if ideas could be evil, than theoretically, everybody on earth could be considered evil to some extent.

Also, you can't control a thought. You can contain it, and keep yourself from doing something because of it, but you can't stop it from getting there.

Technically everyone in their life has at one point done an evil deed.
Don't deny it 😛
I mean if you know stealing and telling lies is bad and you still do it, is that not evil?

So therefore whether or not ideas are evil, everyone has in one point in their life done something "evil"

what about evil in suicide? is suicide an evil act?

everyone has done somthing wrong its whether you know its wrong and think that what you did was wrong determines the fact of how evil the deed was

suicide in my oppinion is an evil .....thing only couse im very religious

Hockey> Depends. Suicide can be evil if, in doing it, you know that you're going to hurt your loved ones. If you have nobody who cares if you die... It's not, because you're not hurting anybody else.

Silv> Yeah, everybody has done something "evil", but that doesn't make the person evil. And telling a lie or stealing IMO aren't a big enough deal to constitute calling evil. Well, obviously it depends what circumstances it's under, but you get the idea.

thats kinda harsh dont you think?(about darths suicide comment

Yes, but if you think about stealing and etc, are you not being evil, because the idea itself you know is wrong 😛

well now there is evil and there is doing something wrong.....to me evil is either already there or can be taught so to speak, but I also believe that there has to be a basic kernel, or genetic marker, or something that must be present for a person to be really evil. 🥷

Also if you commit suicide you could in the long run be hurting someone. I mean what if you were destined to discover a cure for a disease and you go and kill yourself, thats a big deal 😛

Someone else will do it.

but now were getting into fate if you were destined to find a cure for cancer then you kill yourself your destiny changes from discovering a cure to death by suicide or if that person commited suicide i dont see how there destiny would have led them to discovering a cure.....in my opinion life gives you choices right? well each ti,me you make a choice your destiny changes and a suicide person is no different. they had a choice..... kill tghemselves...or somthing else thaat could have led them to discovering a cure but the instant they chose to kill themselves there fate changed