On Thursday, January 3, 2013 9:04:39 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: > > Hi Craig Weinberg > > Evil is not defined by law, but crime is. >
I ask again, "Did I contradict that somewhere?" > > [Roger Clough], [rcl...@verizon.net] <javascript:> > 1/3/2013 > "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen > > ----- Receiving the following content ----- > *From:* Craig Weinberg <javascript:> > *Receiver:* everything-list <javascript:> > *Time:* 2013-01-03, 08:12:58 > *Subject:* Re: Re: Re: The evolution of good and evil > > > > On Thursday, January 3, 2013 5:35:00 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: >> >> Hi Craig Weinberg >> >> Do you know anything about jurisprudence ? >> > > Only as much as you do. > > >> It doesn't care >> if your motivations were good or evil, it only cares if you >> broke the law or not. >> > > Did I contradict that somewhere? > > > >> >> Serial killers are generally thought to be sociopaths, but >> they don't usually have much success cooking up an insanity defense. >> > > That's why I said "There may be people who are born sociopaths". > > They are the mindless, heartless purveyors of cruelty and evil, >> evil as defined by laws. >> > > Is evil defined by law? First you say that jurisprudence is all about > establishing whether you broke the law, and not whether someone has evil > motives, but now you are saying that evil is defined by laws. > > >> Jurors and judges under the legal system determine if you break laws or >> not, >> not whether your motivation was good or evil, although that could >> have some influence on the type of punishment. >> > > Yes, so? > > >> >> >> >> [Roger Clough], [rcl...@verizon.net] >> 1/3/2013 >> "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen >> >> ----- Receiving the following content ----- >> *From:* Craig Weinberg >> *Receiver:* everything-list >> *Time:* 2013-01-02, 12:13:04 >> *Subject:* Re: Re: The evolution of good and evil >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 6:39:17 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: >>> >>> >>> ROGER: There are two opposing forces in the universe, those which >>> enhance >>> life, which we call Good, and those which diminish life, which we call >>> Evil. >>> >>> CRAIG: I can't relate to cut and dried ideas of Good and Evil or >>> enhancing or diminishing of life. >>> It seems completely disconnected from reality to me. If it was that >>> obvious, why wouldn't >>> everyone just do the Good things and avoid Evil things? Obviously our >>> experiences have >>> many layers and qualities which change dynamically. Anything can be >>> interpreted as >>> enhancing or diminishing life. Chemotherapy Good or Evil? >>> >>> ROGER: Good people tend to do good things, evil people to do evil things. >>> >> >> The Stanford Prison Experiment proves that this is not true. There may be >> people who are born sociopaths and born humanitarians but overwhelmingly >> people's actions are reactions to their circumstances. >> >> >>> Chemotherapy is thought to do more good than evil. >>> >> >> By doctors trying to cure patients of cancer, not by the cells of the >> body being poisoned. It sounds like when you say that good enhances life, >> you are talking about the lives of human beings and not any other species. >> If pressed, I suspect that good is further defined as that which enhances >> the lives of human beings which you consider to be good, which will, I >> suspect, turn out to be those people with whom you personally relate or >> admire. >> >> >>> >>> <SNIP> >>> >>> [Roger Clough], [rcl...@verizon.net] >>> 1/1/2013 >>> "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Everything List" group. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/ePt2Uf7MeNsJ. >>> >>> To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+ >>> unsub...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/eo-BouQWicEJ. >> To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> everything-li...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/1goybItgwaEJ. > To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-li...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. 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