What is evil?

I think it's a matter of perspective. We designate others trying to disrupt our way of life as enemies and by extension, evil. I feel anyone who tries to get in my way whether I'm doing good or evil, which I might believe is good as an enemy, an evil enemie. But that's just me.👿 or 😇??

What is Evil?
In many "Religions", the Devil is represented of Evil.

but....no, I am. 😈

Satan is evil!! God is good.

Evil is anything that enjoys hurting others... and never want to help or make someone feel better, but only harm them...

Evil is anything that enjoys the harm or death of others.
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Dr Robert Hare has leant a concrete definition to the term 'psychopath' by deciphering that the areas of their brains associated with emotion do not function. Therefore the whole idea of confusing badness and mania is an infantile mistake; all bad people are warped in some way, but that does not make them any less culpable. Therefore the system has excused some people for haveing dysfunctional brains, but executing others despite their meeting the same criteria.

As mentioned before, the ones who are naturally born killers, or "saveiours" like Hitler, are insane.
I don't think evil exists. Heaven and Hell don't exist. Such justice is only invented by humans. Most people are hurting others for their own good, for example, at work, people lie about others, so they can get more credit. Is that necesairily evil, or just selfishness?
How about wild animals? They kill everday, because they have no choise. Is that evil, or just nature?

i believe when u r born u r inherently good or bad, and what happens afterwards can change u.

me, i was born bad, i go through each day thinking the most vividly bad thoughts about the people i care about, but why dont i act on them? i have a horrible temper, i was born with it and the smallest thing sets me off. when i argue with my girlfriend, she says something particularly hurtful, whats stopping me hitting her? for the record i have never and would never hit a woman, and if i knew a man hit a woman i cared about there would be serious retribution. But what is this voice in my head telling me not to hit her? what compels me to punch the wall instead? i believe i was born bad, but i was affected in a way to make me try to be the best person i can be.

tell me, do i seem like an evil person?

i think everyone has thoughts like that i know i do......its only human...thats not evil..thats violence and humans are violent by nature...besides if you dont act on it you cant say your evil....thats like saying i thought about breaking the law so should i be arrested?

but what about when the bad notions and compulsions are outweighing everything else, u should not be arrested obviously, but what kind of person does that make you to be swamped by so much vioence and fear and even sometimes hate?

violence, fear, and hate all are pretty much the same thing.....i'd call them acts of frustration not evil.....when these feelings outwiegh everything else than your obvsiouly goin through a frustrated and difficult time but like i said before everyone is going to go through times like these....i guess its on how far your willing to go to act on these frustrations that would make you evil...bad thoughts dont make people evil...bad acts do if that makes any sense

yeah, but the thing is, these thoughts are permanent regardless of mood or circumstance, am i permanently frustrated? for as long as i can remember?

i do get where your coming from and maybe its our acts not our thoughts that define us

Evil does not truely exist. Neither does good. They are merely actions which our various society views as such. It was considered evil to interacial marriage a while back in America. It was considered evil to harbor Jews in Germany. It is obvious that morals, good, and evil are open to question. Our concepts of evil change with the progression of civilization.

but surely there are primal things that all humans consider good and evil?

MAYBE killing. But that's really the only thing I can think of that all humans consider evil... Even then it depends on the circumstance.

true, almost everything else is open to interpretation. but i think there will always be constants like murder, rape and paedophilia that will be generally considered bad, whether they're evil is up to a persons point of view.

killing aint always evil

ok, wrong word, i meant murder in cold blood

evil is the absence of good, god created only good, evil exist and therefore logically god does not exist or god is not benevolent

god created only good? who told u that?