> From: Michael Harney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Michael Harney wrote: > > > > > > As for christian reconstructionists being "evil", I disagree. > > > Evil implies malicious intent. I don't believe that their intents > > > are malicious. I just think they are misguided. > > > > > No, evil implies [Heinlein's definition, or some paraphrase] causing > > unecessary pain to sentient beings. > > Hypothetical: Someone is driving along and their brakes go out without > warning. An accident occurs that results in one or more deaths. Even if > what happens is a total accident, it is evil? Are you sure Heinlein's > definition wasn't *intentionally* causing unnecessary pain to a sentient > being? > > > There are vast classes of Evil that are done with the purest of > > intentions, like building a cleaner world with only a few thousand > > happy human beings - so let's kill the other 5,999,990,000 > > I'm sorry, but you have oversimplified the example to the point that you > can't see the trees through the forest (Yes, I meant it the way I typed it) > . An intentional murder or harming of another *requires* malicious intent. > If you have intent to deliberately harm someone (regardless of > justification) that is the very definition of malicious intent. Malicious > intent means, quite litterally, wanting to do harm to another. For an act > to be evil it requires intent to do harm to another, ie: malicious intent.
So in other words the god of the bible is Evil because he intends to kill everyone who doesn't think the right way, and a very graphic and malicious way. QED _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
