--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Duveyoung <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > Once again, define evil for us... > > > > "Evil" is a word that people who want to > > do something nasty or despicable hurl at > > the person or entity they want to do it > > to, to make themselves look better. > > Is this just the word "evil"? Or does it also > apply to despicable, execrable, harmful, hateful, > heinous, iniquitous, maleficent, nefarious, > pernicious, reprehensible, repugnant, vile, > villainous?
In you, given your history of hatred, I would say that they were all synonyms. :-) And used for *exactly* the reason I suggest above. But "evil" is the more problematic term in my opinion because so many people associate it with absolutes. Using the term is IMO almost always an attempt to invoke the authority of an absolute that does not exist in the relative.
