----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 11:26 AM Subject: Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"
> > Travis Edmunds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >From: Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Debbi > > >who is going through 'saved mail,' but only > > commenting > > >on ~ 10% of that - and incidentally found that the > > >concepts of Good and Evil were another point of > > >disagreement with Travis....ditto Rob's replies! > > ;) > > > > Am I to assume that Rob's thoughts are yours, so to > > speak? > > Not exactly. :) > But IIRC your viewpoint was that "evil" is more > relative, and that there is no Evil as such; Rob's was > that Evil does exist - IIRC. It's a bit of semantics, > perhaps, but in spite of my assertion that there's a > lot of grey out there, I think certain acts are > inherently evil, and it seems that some people > actively serve Evil (as opposed to the merely greedy, > stupid, or misguided who perpetrate many cruel acts). I believe there is a continuum that describes the contrast between good and evil. I think most of us have seen evidence of altruism, or felt a love so pure that its memory is painful. (I think what is painful is that one is not feeling with such blinding intensity *now*) These are examples of things that most would consider to be *very* good. But that kind of *very* good, does not exist without its polar opposite. Life contains these kinds of symettries, and I suspect that this is not limited to human life. > > Frex that Texas woman who murdered her children is, I > think, sick - but needs to be punished nevertheless. Needs and deserves treatment, I would think. I think your argument more appropriately applies to the woman who ran over her cheating husband with *his* daughter in the front seat with her. > I don't think she is evil; as opposed to Saddam's son > Uday (or was it the other?) who tortured multiple > people for his own pleasure - now he was evil, and his > actions served Evil. > > OTOH, I don't believe in a Devil as such. We humans > can choose to promote the Good or the Light or > whatever you want to call it, or we can choose to > increase the Evil, Dark or what-have-you. Active, > knowing choice is what makes the difference to me: > whether an act or a person is evil (vs. wrong, bad or > illegal etc.), and that the intention and outcome is > pain/suffering to another. > The Devil "is" us, but then so is God. xponent Internal Manifestations And Avatars Maru rob
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