Is there anything worse than evil?
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Is there anything worse than evil?
Could there be anything worse than evil? If so, what is it? Wouldn't it as well be considered evil?
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What's worse than evil
Some of us make amends for our evil while some mock.
Some witnesses of evil condemn evil while others endorse it.
Thus, my answer would be that" glorifying or condoning evil "surpasses evil."
Finally, Inciting More Evil to an Evil Situation is Worst the Committed Evil
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Secondly fools that think of themselves as saints or innocent in the world all the while they try to conceal their venomous dispositions and apathy towards other people I think is somthing I find highly undesirable in people.
Don't you find it interesting how archaic ritualistic words such as these with mythological metanarratives just keep finding themselves in these conversations where they seem that they can't die even after one eradicates religion?Keith says-
"Evil" is just a word used to describe an object or event that human beings have judged "harmful", "dangerous", or "extremely undesirable".
Worse than "evil" would be "extremely evil", etc.
The fact that fellow atheists I have met still believe in the very definitions of "good" and "evil" even without a god makes me want to laugh.
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Which word is the 'mythological metanarrative'? Evil? What "archaic ritual" does it belong to?Demystified wrote:Don't you find it interesting how archaic ritualistic words such as these with mythological metanarratives just keep finding themselves in these conversations where they seem that they can't die even after one eradicates religion?
Is there no such thing as good and/or evil if there is no God? You can be an 'evil' unto yourself by intentionally inflicting self harm. Evil exist for atheist; it's just on a more personal level.Demystified wrote:The fact that fellow atheists I have met still believe in the very definitions of "good" and "evil" even without a god makes me want to laugh.
If evil could be personified, like in Christianity with Satan, then the definition of evil is surpassed or at least taken to its furthest limit.Tingle mind wrote:Could there be anything worse than evil?
Satan is said to be the "Father of Lies" and the "Prince of Darkness". He gave birth to and rules over his creation; evil.
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"The fact that fellow atheists I have met still believe in the very definitions of "good" and "evil" even without a god makes me want to laugh."
The concept of good or evil pertains (even without the acknowledgment of God) to civility. Once the element of coexistence is involved, then behavioural parameter must be defined. A person living in their own "world" is not subjected to the rules of mankind.
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Shane Hanley wrote:Demystified wrote:
"The fact that fellow atheists I have met still believe in the very definitions of "good" and "evil" even without a god makes me want to laugh."
The concept of good or evil pertains (even without the acknowledgment of God) to civility. Once the element of coexistence is involved, then behavioural parameter must be defined. A person living in their own "world" is not subjected to the rules of mankind.
Most who use the word civility do not even know what the word means.The concept of good or evil pertains (even without the acknowledgment of God) to civility. Once the element of coexistence is involved, then behavioural parameter must be defined. A person living in their own "world" is not subjected to the rules of mankind.
What is civility?
There is no such thing as coexistence.Once the element of coexistence is involved,
There is only competition, conflict, and struggle followed by hardship.
then behavioural parameter must be defined.
Defined as what?
What's that statement mean?A person living in their own "world" is not subjected to the rules of mankind.
Yes the word evil. Good and evil the first historical dualities can be found originally in their first format of history in religious ritualistic depictions everywhere around the world over in that such religionisms is the origins not to mention the original construct of both terms.Algol- Which word is the 'mythological metanarrative'? Evil?
The irony is how these words have survived transferring themselves into social philosophy from religion.
What "archaic ritual" does it belong to?
The ritual of demonstrating the illusion and story of a us and them mentality where quite the contrary both sides of the duality are consequences of each other.
The ritualistic metanarrative is of two sides that are eternal foes of each other but once more as said previosly both sides of each token are consequences of each other where both need each other to exist.
There is no two sides. There is no duality.
There is only a singular existence of two sides that are one of the same token.
As a atheist I would make such a remark.Is there no such thing as good and/or evil if there is no God?
Evil to me doesn't exist. It's a myth constantly perpetuated in order to exact fear from a social dogma in order to achieve control and obedience.You can be an 'evil' unto yourself by intentionally inflicting self harm.
It's a mythological story retold by those in authority of power in society to lull the masses asleep into docile complacency by threatening them into obedience by calling the disobedient this discription in order to segregate them as somthing other than when it concerns the general populance.
Once you oust a segment of the population under a hideous label is easily to describe them as being somthing other than human (subhuman) or somthing other than the general populance in order to be rid of them by damning ostracization.
Evil exist for atheist; it's just on a more personal level.
I'm a atheist and I don't believe in such.
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Re: Is there anything worse than evil?
Although the events themselves maybe seen as evil, one must accept that depending on the circumstances there may be no evil intent involved. This would depend on how we define evil.
Do we have the right to call nature evil?
I believe in order to use the word evil there must be some form of conscious intent behind it.
Demystified said "The fact that fellow atheists I have met still believe in the very definitions of "good" and "evil" even without a god makes me want to laugh."
Please elaborate.
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Re: Is there anything worse than evil?
-- Updated December 6th, 2011, 9:11 pm to add the following --
The reason I do not see suffering worse than evil, is that evil seeks it. Therefore if one has to suffer, better not to suffer evil....I guess.
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Re: Is there anything worse than evil?
Maybe in a figurative or literary sense, but in the formal sense, evil is the complete absence of good. It is not possible to have less than the complete absence of something.Is there anything worse than evil?
Your question is like asking if there is anything darker than darkness itself, if darkness is the complete absence of light.
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