I like how the definition included "MORALLY wrong or bad". Aren't morals relative to whoever holds them? What someone may consider morally bad may be ok for someone else.
I guess somebody can consider someone "evil" if the person who is being considered also understands that what they are doing is socially/morally wrong and still performs the evil deed anyways, or rather someone who desires to commit moral wrongdoings or harm upon other people. However, the number of people who truly do those things or do that degree of hatred isn't that many.
What should we think in terms of then?
Baron Max
I'm glad to hear that about your children but it doesn't mean they're not innately selfish.
Innately selfish doesn't mean EVERY thing 1 does is selfish.
Surely in any given society one's first duty is to oneself?
Since we are talking very young children here, young enough that they don't have the cognitive capacity to over come their "innate" behaviors, the fact that they don't act just in wholly selfish ways actually does mean that they aren't innately selfish.
And that makes perfect sense when you consider that we evolved as social animals. Being innately selfish doesn't work well in a social setting.
It doesn't have to be and there are natural examples where individuals sacrifice themselves to further other ends.
Never?Ah, but we are never able to over come our innate, built in behaviors.
So you wouldn't ever get say, someone throwing themselves onto a grenade to save their buddies?Every organism acts in their own best interest in order to preserve their genes. That is evolution.
Never?
So you wouldn't ever get say, someone throwing themselves onto a grenade to save their buddies?
Or acting as a bodyguard and taking a bullet for their client?
Or dying while attempting to rescue a stranger?
Pure and utter nonsense.These actions are performed with a lack of foresight. The person who performs these actions does so because they expect some sort of reward, perhaps in the afterlife. Every action is done for selfish reason. There is biological proof for this. Every act is performed because endorphins are released in your brain which make you feel good and dopamine is released in your brain which tells you to do it again.
Pure and utter nonsense.
Afterlife?
There is a biological basis for altruism.
Do it again?
How many times CAN you die by throwing yourself onto a grenade?
So now you've changed your mind about them doing things out of selfishness?People do things in the heat of a moment that they might not normally do.
So now you've changed your mind about them doing things out of selfishness?
Heat of the moment?
Yup: kamikaze training took me a month or so, but I didn't realise I was doing until too late..
Hive minded?
Wow, you sure have a talent for not getting a grasp.
Altruism helps individuals get on with each, helps them function in society.
Man is a social animal.
The individual may not actually CARE about the species, but then again the altruism doesn't function at conscious level.
HmmmI haven't changed my mind, I just said I am not sure of their reason.
The person who performs these actions does so because they expect some sort of reward, perhaps in the afterlife. Every action is done for selfish reason. There is biological proof for this.
It's only incidentally good for the individual: it's very good for the species.And if an action helps individuals get along with and help each other, guess what? It's good for the individual, which is why the action is performed.