On 15 Mar, 13:51, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Reading the discussion here on Tim K.'s amok slaughter in Southern
> Germany this week, the question occurred to me; does evil exist? To be
> sure, we encounter examples of evil all the time, but we generally
> tend to seek explanations for "evil" actions, or "evil" courses of
> events. But what of deeds or people who are classed as being simply
> evil as such? What is evil? Is it - as is often claimed - simply an
> absence of good, or is there more? And what of people like Josef
> Fritzl, who goes on trial in Austra
> tomorrow?http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/31/joseffritzl-austria
> As Molly is wont do ask, what do YOU think?
>
> Francis
Personally, I see evil as I do good, they are both perceptions based
on our limited understanding of the entire chain of events. Simply
put, events occur. We supposedly intelligent beings put those events
into a limited context (our understanding of the situation) and
declare the event to be good or evil. Without a complete
understanding of the state of the universe, it's our arrogance (in
spite of our ignorance) that declares any event to be either good or
evil. Now, even I tend to coldly lump Mr. Fritzl into the category of
evil, but I do so knowing that my declaration doesn't make it so and,
more than likely, if I knew all the variables involved in the
situation (like whether or not any future offspring may turn out to be
vital to human history, for example) I wouldn't be so 'careless' as to
classify the events as evil. And, alas, my ignorance also prevents me
from defending his actions even though my science background (in
particular, the geometry of space-time containing no missing points)
tells me that whatever happened was 'required' by the universe to get
us all from point A to point B.
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