Khier Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 What do you think? Do laws and regulations and such of our modern societies merely condition us to repress our inhumane nature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obi Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 Everyone is born with some form of ability to tell the difference from right and wrong. This can be manipulated by several settings, mind you, but they still exhist. Matter of Fact, I think the laws and regulations are needed for some. It's probably the only thing thats kept them from actually murdering someone in cold blood. EVeryone has the same emotions, It's all in how you deal with emotions that determines if you are humane or inhumane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C'jais Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 If Evil = Stupidity, then hell yes. Education not only conditions it, it will hopefully end up minimizing it to a large degree, and minimize the consequences of Stupidity as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datheus Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 A lot of the things that are in our because of primal instinct for survival of the fittest would be considered "evil." Or at least inhumane. So yeah, I'd say that evil (as defined by humans) is born in people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lathain Valtiel Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 Originally posted by obi-wan13 EVeryone has the same emotions, It's all in how you deal with emotions that determines if you are humane or inhumane. Wrong. There are certain disabilities and forms of conditioning that can strip us of emotion. It's chemical processes, not mystical. (It's been said by some psychologists that Saddam Hussein and sons suffer from a defciency that strips them of remorse.. Take that as you will.) Now.. Since evil is subjective, and what evil is depends on the person, then yes, 'evil', and I use the term loosely, exists in all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homuncul Posted November 27, 2003 Share Posted November 27, 2003 "Evil is a point of view" Lestat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourdad Posted November 28, 2003 Share Posted November 28, 2003 I remember JM Qui Gon Jinn posting something about this a long time ago. He basically said that nor evil nor good exists. It's all depends on your personnal perception of your actions. Someone such as Saddam thinks he's doing good. What is good for one may be bad for another person. Such as now. Some might think Bush has done something evil to Irak but others will think the opposite. That's inevitable, it all depends on the perception of the person toward another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jubatus Posted November 28, 2003 Share Posted November 28, 2003 Originally posted by Khier Serakk What do you think? Do laws and regulations and such of our modern societies merely condition us to repress our inhumane nature? First of all I have to say that I loathe the terms "humane" and "inhumane". Anything that a human is capable of doing must per definition be humane. This discrimination between the moral rights and wrongs only serve to strengthen the delusion that humans are something "higher-than-X". As has been said previously in this thread good and evil, right and wrong are relative to the beholder. Everything we do are based on selfsatisfaction, be the action "classically" good or evil. If you care to read the "Philosophy revival" thread I have there explained it more thoroughly. And directly to your question; yes, it seems to me quite obvious that we're conditioned through our upbringing, and continously through all our lives, to repress our primal desires for the better of the community, as it were, by laws and regulations, written and unwritten. Originally posted by obi-wan13 Everyone is born with some form of ability to tell the difference from right and wrong. No more than any animal is. And as it is with several animals we too can be trained. EDIT: It is "Philosophy revival" not 101. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff38 Posted November 29, 2003 Share Posted November 29, 2003 The term evil is a cop out. There is NO evil. Evil is a term created to seperate destructive behavior from personal responsibility. I put it to you that every single evil act ever recognized started in the mind of man. Natural diasters cannot be evil, nor can the destructive behavior of animals. All that is evil comes from the dark hearts of men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 evil spelt backwards is live and we all want to do that, saddly however once you have lived, you look behind you only to see the devil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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