What is evil? and where does it come from?

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sourcetruthmol

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Here's what I think.

Evil exists in human brains only. Since our first human ancestors became able to think in terms of “I” instead of “We”, the challenge of our existence on Earth was joined.

We have the awesome abilities to record our history, to ponder the past, present and future, to plan, to predict, to calculate, etc. With those abilities, however, comes the potential to plan and carry out unspeakable acts of cruelty for personal gain. This is evil.

All people are born with perfect Lifesources consisting only of love and understanding. We are born non-violent, not even in thought. Whenever we put the I before the We, we ignore our Lifeplan, offend each other, offend the Source, and contemplate evil thoughts, or worse.

Any notion that suggests evil is somewhere “out there” is misguided at best. The evil we are here to contend with is entirely within our human thought processes, and within our ability to interfere with the plans of the Source.

The Source cannot experience evil directly, but the Source’s understanding of human evil is growing through our life experiences.

Thank you for your consideration, Dennis

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there is no good or evil everything just is. to use an example I seen some where else, if it rains on someones wedding and runis it but at the same time waters someones corn crops is the rain good or evil? It is nethier it just is.
 
How can one possibly know what horrors there are in human history and still hold the believe that "there is no good or evil everything just is" and " think evil is subjective."?

Sure the rain holds no ethical value. But can you say the same of e.g. camp Birkenau?
(hmm would that sound like :"sure many jews, gipsies, communists, homophiles, etc. have been slaughtered there, but it also provided a job for svereal hundreds of arian persons."?)
 
When I say that I think evil is subjective, I don't mean to suggest that it doesn't exist. What each person percieves as evil IS evil to them. To me the event you mentioned is evil. I think most people percieve it as evil. However,I think the people doingit did not percieve it as evil, or else they would not have done it. If things had gone differently in WWII most people might not percieve them as evil.
 
morality starts off with an individual and as such is subjective. however if this
individual lives within a larger society of other individuals, morality will no longer be defined by any single person. instead it will defined by any set of particular behaviours that have been proven to be advantageous to that society.
now morality can be referred to as having an objective value. a standard for living has been established. transgress at your own risk
 
Originally posted by spookz
morality starts off with an individual and as such is subjective. however if this
individual lives within a larger society of other individuals, morality will no longer be defined by any single person. instead it will defined by any set of particular behaviours that have been proven to be advantageous to that society.
now morality can be referred to as having an objective value. a standard for living has been established. transgress at your own risk
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What is evil to a society can be refered to as an objective fact, this is different from evil itself being viewed that way.
 
giving leave for any particular individual to live by his own code of ethics/morality is a bad idea. he could very well turn out to be insane
 
Originally posted by spookz
giving leave for any particular individual to live by his own code of ethics/morality is a bad idea. he could very well turn out to be insane
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I wasn't suggesting that. If something is viewed as evil by society then society can take steps to prevent it. This does not effect whether or not evil is subjective.
 
are we going around in circles?
do you need me to clarify anything?
note where i said "morality starts off with an individual and as such is subjective"
 
"giving leave for any particular individual to live by his own code of ethics/morality is a bad idea. he could very well turn out to be insane"

Where did I imply that this was a good idea?
 
humans are inherently good they just become corrupted along the way.
 
humans are inherently good they just become corrupted along the way.
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Human are animals and animals are not "inherently good" nor are the "inherently bad" either. I think it depends on each certain being. Some good, some bad. There are certain animals that are born "bad" just like humans. No one knows why, it just is. I believe it is a character flaw. A snag in the personality if you will. I know of people that were born, were bad kids, bad adults - well they were just bad all around. You could write this off by saying there was something that made them "trigger" along the way, but I dont buy that.
 
its really ez, anything that flows in the direction of nature is good, anything that flows against nature is evil; but then again, you would need to truly Understand nature first . . . .:)
 
Evil, in my eyes, is the wish to cause harm to another even when there is no benifit. It can be confused with opportunism, the willingness to bring harm to another if it brings you a benifit.

Opportunism sounds like evil but think about fighting for a cause. You are willing to do harm to another for a benifit, perhaps an idealogical one.
 
evil "for a benefit" is still evil; consider pagan rituals where innocent people were sacrificed with what was then considered a benefit; consider the mongol expansion throughout the middle east; consider the Christian crusades; consider Nero's persecution of Christians; consider the Jewish persecution of Muslims; consider . . . .
 
Originally posted by adj
evil "for a benefit" is still evil; consider pagan rituals where innocent people were sacrificed with what was then considered a benefit; consider the mongol expansion throughout the middle east; consider the Christian crusades; consider Nero's persecution of Christians; consider the Jewish persecution of Muslims; consider . . . .
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except that all these things were considered to be good by some people at the time and not evil
 
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