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mr jones, lots of undesirable things are not evil. the classic distinction is between human actions and natural disasters, for instance. evil's usually particularly applied as a moral judgment on human actions, and that doesn't necessarily make it a religious judgment.

i guess emotionally it seems religious though. the idea of evil seems more fitting and less horrendous given the idea of an overwhelming good.

― Maria (Maria), Saturday, 11 February 2006 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think evil as an absolute can logically exist without some kind of external moral force (ie God, in whom I don't believe). It's just a personal moral judgment.

This doesn't mean I think murderers, rapists, dictators etc. are anything other than absolute bastards, just that it's not at all useful to explain away that kind of behaviour by saying 'They did because they are EVIL!'

― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Saturday, 11 February 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

waaaah evil

^^^the last 3 days on this fkn website

― imago, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 22:16 (ten years ago) link

Evil is defined by bad deeds done for no reason
Like putting powder in the restaurant seasoning

― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link

The most hard for the least good

― mundane peaceable username (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link

two years pass...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/31/its-now-or-never-texts-reveal-teens-efforts-to-pressure-boyfriend-into-suicide/?tid=pm_pop_b

― j., Tuesday, 1 September 2015 01:31 (eight years ago) link

I saw that on Gawker, really having trouble understanding why she would do that. Evil sounds right.

― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 01:37 (eight years ago) link

I was wondering if she couldn't have genuinely believed he was better off dead. grim thought but maybe the kindest interpretation idk.

― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 04:29 (eight years ago) link

jfc that is disturbing read
maybe sthing of munchausen-by-proxy to it
but i'm fine with calling it evil

― drash, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 04:48 (eight years ago) link

“Not yet LOL,” he replied.

― drash, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 04:48 (eight years ago) link

yep, that's definitely evil.

also evil: when people on the internet start calling her family with death threats, which has probably already happened, because lol, the internet.

― rushomancy, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 11:38 (eight years ago) link

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