Where does evil come from?

That and religion.

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yea i agree. this probably wont be a long lasting topic because the answer is easy. but yea those two really are the cause of soo much in the world

that and poverty.

well poverty still involves money. just lack of it. and look what that causes people to do

well maybe south park was right about religion, but without money there would still be wealth wars just over objects instead of money

no i dont think it would come down to wars over objects rather it would probably be over ideas. like the crusades. thats really what wars were about before money started causing wars

Evil comes from the heart of those who spew it.

Has anyone answered what "evil" is?

It's this thing that we don't like that we lable as evil.

evil is but a point of view... its main purpose is to sway people to follow the law and not to do things the community finds distasteful... such as rebellion... although the rebels find it to be the right thing society and especially the leaders of the society think the rebels as evil for trying to over throw them, good and evil is mostly a way to teach people to hate others

also... the ideal of omnipotence and choice cannot will not and never can go together, as free choice will have many different outcomes and if the future is known that implies the choice is known which means the choice isn't there... as well as one who creates ALL can't just give free choice... he also has to decide what the choices are, which means he gave us the choice to sin purposefully which means he wanted us to do it... same with predetermined events... in fact more so

true evil? i suppose from pain or internalisation of bad ideals/education.

highheadedness{an internalised bad ideal}, ethnocentrism, suppression of nondamaging biological instincts, lack of expirienced love etc also play a part. selfishness is also a great facilitater.

LOL

man, metaphysical evil makes me laugh, if the worst things in this world were the supression of instinct and government persuasion, we would be so much better off.

i wasnt talking about metaphysical evil though. i was merely talking about malice/sadism/desire for cruelty/negetivity/taking unhealthy pleasure from dominating others etc

Evil comes from the minds of humans. It's where it can only come from.

hmm.. well my post got moved to this one. mine was about is money really the root of all evil? i guess evil is a very strong, but broad term that could refer to a number of things. one mans evils could be anothers mans beliefs/ideals.. "evil" is just one mans reference to something he thinks is wrong. anyway you look at it though, "evil" is everywhere and its probably gonna be like that for a while.

Evil comes from ignorance.

evil comes from mcdonald french fries.

Ever wonder why so many people like them when they taste like shit? Its because its the source of all evil

There is an old saying that the fault lies in our stars but in our selves , because we are underlings.So I believe that evil is a stuff inside us.

Evil comes from me.

The God of Darkness and Destruction.

I'm going to run in generalities. Human evil comes -mostly- from the thought that humans know what is evil and what not, most prejudices can be justified from the idea of good and evil being relative, if they were absolute, we would be wrong pretty much all the time, who wants to be wrong? Lets assume its right to protect someone and kill someone else, because I know better.

Thats the origin of evil, but its not the definition.

First of all, lets get the fact clear, evil as an idea, good another one and so on. We are not even talking philosophies here, we are talking semantics, what you understand as good may not be my conception of it, making a discussion about it longer than necessary and annoying. Then again, if I use my conception of good to define evil and you don't like my conception of good, then you won't find any redeemable value in my thesis. Be warned, explaining things through my own set theories can be quite a pain.

Good is action. Good is inaction. Good is a set of choices and repercussions that lead to different results. Lets say for example that Good is a verb -an action-, I'm thinking about "walk". If Good is walk, what is Evil? Well, maybe it could be "not walk", but notice that this is the absence of an action rather than an action itself, lets look for something more like it; maybe a fine answer would be "to walk backwards", but then again, we are doing Good and adding conditions to it, this is not quite an action either; also, if Good is walk, what about "eat", "jump", "talk". This is precisely my thesis of evil, that, since good is an action, every other non good action is, to a degree, evil; most of them from omission more than opposition, there are also actions that will have an opposite result compared to walk, those are more profusely evil actions.

If I move from this basis, the problem is about the inherent goodness or evilness of each action; take for example walk and note that walking backwards would be evil. If good is not in the action, then where is good? It would need to balance every notion of the universe, to see every future, to construct every coincidence. We would not be able to grasp good simply because its impossible to know all the values and reasons. And so we are hit once again from my first paragraph, that human evil come from the idea of knowing what is good and what is bad. If I'm to accept that good is inherent from the action, I may be accepting to much, I will make unfair laws up to a situation that half of the time will be wrong and I won't notice. I have to accept that I don't know what good is, and yet try to do good at the same time -assuming that I want to do good-, because if I was to accept I will never know what good is, I'm again assuming too much and putting myself in the evil plan again.

This is a basic view of good and evil, from where does it come from, I think is more than debatable.