― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:24 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:26 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:26 (twenty years ago) link
xpost - stevem's previous question.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:26 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
It's a word used by people who are conservative to distance themselves from criminals, this always makes me feel uncomfortable. I've never committed serious crime, and hopefully never will but I really hate the sense of self righteousness that suggests the vast majority of society JUST AREN'T CAPABLE OF SUCH EVIL, Huntley is a human being like the rest of us.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:30 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:32 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:33 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:33 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:34 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:35 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:41 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:44 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:48 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link
(xposts)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:52 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
I suppose I'm interested in what made someone like Dr Harold Shipman kill lots of people apparently just for the sake of it.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:59 (twenty years ago) link
Would he be less evil if it benefitted him?Would he be less evil if it benefitted others?
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 16:00 (twenty years ago) link
Why do we like what we like or why are we who we are is a question not answered entirely, it's real meaning of life stuff you're getting at in some ways. I think so, anyway.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 16:00 (twenty years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
Likewise, I'm sure there are many people who've had murderous *impulses*, even randomly, while not acting upon them. What distances Shipman or Fred West from the rest of us is that, seemingly, that "I shouldn't be doing this" aspect has gone, or it just doesn't bother them, or whatever.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 16:09 (twenty years ago) link
Maybe what is and isn't foreign to certain culture's isn't a reliable enough barometer? Where do the parameters lie in war zones? What about concepts like 'honour killing'?
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 16:11 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link
Evil to me is shorthand for actions (and to a certain extent, thoughts*) that damage the ability of a society to function at its best. That's a really general description but I don't have the time (this is kind of a lie).
*I think stevem is OTM about the fact that not doing evil is a choice we make. While from an outside perspective there can be no thoughts that are evil, it is true enough that as individuals we can examine our thoughts and find them to be evil, which is the first step in not doing some of the things we probably think about doing.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 01:02 (twenty years ago) link
Would I be evil if I admitted that I find these late night programmes on suburban couples who engage in gang bangs by night weirdly fascinating?
I drink Coca Cola - am I supporting an evil empire?
― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 01:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 01:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 01:16 (twenty years ago) link
Seems to me most evil in fact is tied to selfishness of some kind
― ermes marana, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 01:23 (twenty years ago) link
How Evil Are You?
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 05:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 06:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 06:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Define it
― endymion, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
i mean, this happens everywhere from folks in your town to those in your elected government. Seriously, what do one do about the evil in the world?
― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
hahaha! I love that song.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link
-- ermes marana (ermin...), December 17th, 2003
Bingo. To me the worst crimes in existence can always be boiled down to thievery of some sort (murder is the ultimate act of thievery).
― i thunk, Friday, 10 February 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Maria (Maria), Saturday, 11 February 2006 05:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Saturday, 11 February 2006 06:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Evil is the absence of good. Evil is a violation.
But I do like what Ghandi said about confronting what was evil in ourselves before we fought evil outside of ourselves.
Then again, I don't think this goes against the Christian myth. In fact I think it is consistent. Ghandi did say in his autobiography that he thought Christianity was perhaps the one perfectly true religion. Unfortunately he experienced racist Christians, and was disenfranchised as a result...
― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Saturday, 11 February 2006 06:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Saturday, 11 February 2006 07:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Couldnt we also say natural evil exists and that many good things flow from confronting it, ie it allows people to be at their very best (or worst), what about the role of evil in character formation, could we not argue that far from being a non issue evil allows ouselves to be fully human?
― Kiwi, Saturday, 11 February 2006 07:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Saturday, 11 February 2006 07:06 (eighteen years ago) link
That's evil,Evil is goin' on wrong.I am warnin' ya brother,You better watch your happy home.
Well, long way from home and,Can't sleep at all.You know another mule,Is kickin' in your stall.
(Spoken: You better catch him, 'cause somethin' wrong, in your home.)
Well, if ya call her on the telephone,And she answers aweful slow,Grab the first train smokin',If you have to hobo.
If you make it to your house,Knock on the front door,Run around to the back,You'll catch him just before he go.
That's evil,Evil is goin' on.I am warnin' ya brother,You better watch your happy home.
--"Evil" by Howlin' Wolf
― Mama Roux, Saturday, 11 February 2006 07:07 (eighteen years ago) link
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
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
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 reasonLike 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
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 readmaybe sthing of munchausen-by-proxy to itbut i'm fine with calling it evil
― drash, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 04:48 (eight years ago) link
“Not yet LOL,” he replied.
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