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Taking a 3% commission for a house that sells itself and pretending you added value is evil.
NAR is evil.
I'll give you a definition of evil.
Hypocrisy I think is one of the greatest evils. Having an undefined set of rules which are arbitrarily enforced is the foundation of evil. If it's evil for you to kill me, but acceptable for me to kill you, that's evil. If I can steal from you, but you cannot steal from me, that's evil. If a corporation can evade taxes legally but you cannot, that's evil. If a black man must sit on the back of the bus, but you can sit anywhere, that's evil. If Hillary Clinton can take home classified documents, place them on a computer that is unsecured, and allow people to buy access to that machine without consequence but Kristian Saucier cannot take a photograph of the interior or a sub, innocently, that's evil. If Hunter Biden can do crack cocaine and engage in prostitution without consequence but an inner city man gets a prison sentence for the same thing, it's evil. If the United States can bomb 7 nations over 20 years without anybody complaining...
I'll give you a definition of evil.
Hypocrisy I think is one of the greatest evils. Having an undefined set of rules which are arbitrarily enforced is the foundation of evil. If it's evil for you to kill me, but acceptable for me to kill you, that's evil. If I can steal from you, but you cannot steal from me, that's evil. If a corporation can evade taxes legally but you cannot, that's evil. If a black man must sit on the back of the bus, but you can sit anywhere, that's evil. If Hillary Clinton can take home classified documents, place them on a computer that is unsecured, and allow people to buy access to that machine without consequence but Kristian Saucier cannot take a photograph of the interior or a sub, innocently, that's evil. If Hunter Biden can do crack cocaine and engage in prostitution without consequence but an inner city man gets a prison sentence for the same thing, it's evil. If the United States can bomb 7 nations over 20 years without anybody complaining...
Let me test out your theory with a hypothetical.
A man claims to be a great liar yet nearly always tells the truth, claims to be a dangerous man of violence but in actuality avoids conflict as much as he can. He claims to have screwed many women but actually hasn’t ever been with anyone but his wife.
That man is a hypocrite, but is he also evil?
I’ll give you this that hypocrisy is a form of evil. But not that it’s the source of all evil. After all, a man who openly claims his evil deeds and promises more of the same is no less evil for being honest about it.
If his numbers are right, does anyone think that our country (the nation and the politicians, not the people) has an evil side?
I also think that the snake rots from the head down, their evil rubs off on a lot of the population.
Evil can not create; it can only subvert.
Good and evil are relationships. Good and evil do not exist unless others exist.
There are no evil people distinctly separate from everyone else.
Yet some people are better than others.
"If only it were all so simple. If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Hmm not sure that this makes sense to me are you attempting to argue for relativism?
I’ll give you this that hypocrisy is a form of evil. But not that it’s the source of all evil. After all, a man who openly claims his evil deeds and promises more of the same is no less evil for being honest about it. Most people just use obfuscation because they have to. But others who feel protected from consequences are absolutely brazen about it. Like Hillary Clinton about her mail server or her smear of Trump as a Russian agent. She simply can’t be prosecuted so she doesn’t care.
PeopleUnited saysHmm not sure that this makes sense to me are you attempting to argue for relativism?
i think Pat has a point. hiw would something be good if we had no frame of reference? what makes good the good and evil the evil? its an interesting and complex topic
Fortwaynemobile saysPeopleUnited saysHmm not sure that this makes sense to me are you attempting to argue for relativism?
i think Pat has a point. hiw would something be good if we had no frame of reference? what makes good the good and evil the evil? its an interesting and complex topic
I agree we need context in order understand or judge between good and evil. Maybe that is what he meant?
Evil is what turns one away from god, from word of god
What color shirt I wear in the morning is of the same significance as if I slaughter a 1000 people in terms of the scale of universe.
Now to be clear, I’m not saying women are evil, nor that ignorance is evil. But false testimony is certainly evil and so her performance was a clear representation of the fact that she is under the influence of evil, if not wholly given over to that evil.
But it got me thinking, if we live in a world where Supreme Court nominees are giving false testimony (she knows damn well what a women is and therefore she is a liar of the most despicable type, lying about a universally known truth) and not dismissed immediately for their false testimony, then what other perversions are accepted in our culture? And in fact, if giving false testimony is acceptable, has the concept of evil lost its meaning just like the rainbow?
For those ignorant of the meaning of the rainbow, look it up. But we cannot continue as a nation or even as a species if we cannot define and reasonably agree on what evil is. Read the Declaration of Independence and our other founding documents and you will see evil defined, not like a dictionary definition but rather a clear set of shared values, things permitted and things prohibited in the interest of preserving life, liberty, and property.
But over time, indoctrination has changed peoples perception and understanding of what evil is, to the point that what was once universally understood as evil is now celebrated, and what was once valued as good is reviled.
Is anyone else noticing this? Is anyone even able to distinguish between good and evil anymore, and if not how can we continue as a culture or society?
What is evil? Can anyone give a reasonable defense and definition of the concept? Can you give real world examples? Who has wisdom here?
This is a challenge to anyone to speak to one of the most basic concepts of humanity. The concept of evil, what it is, what it isn’t, where it comes from is wrapped up in what it means to be a human and without the concept of evil I would argue that there can be no culture and no hope for the future. Without the concept of evil there is no need for society or culture or life itself because without evil, there is nothing wrong, nothing to weep over, and nothing to defend yourself or your society against. And if there is no definition of evil why do we need rules, wars, or judges? We need to get the concept of evil right or we are doomed.
Don’t you agree?