yeah I did, but thats only because I didn't know exactly how to explain it. =P
and pretty much yeah.
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Are People Inherently Good or Inherently Evil?
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It seems to me you explained it pretty well.
"Basically Adam and Eve screwed up big time."
Made much more sense than what Wiki said with something about theology and crap...Posted 4 years ago # -
I would say we are good, because first of all since I'm a Christian i believe that God created us to do Good. NOT Evil. Also we know what is right and wrong, we are born with a sense of that. If you look back through time you will see we have all had generally th same rights and wrongs as we do today, this proving that we know what good and bad is.
So if we were born evil why would God give us these feelings of right and wrong, and more so; why would he create us if he meant for us to do evil?could not have said it better my friend!
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Neither. Who are we to judge what is good and what is evil? Everyone does everything for a purpose. There isn't anyone that does nefarious deeds simply to be 'evil,' like Emperor Palpatine or something you see on TV.
Most serial killers have problems. Is what they do right? No. But the fact remains, no normal being would do such things.
Would someone who killed people because of some horrible mental illness or phobia that we cannot ever understand or imagine be evil?
What is good and what is evil is generally an opinion. Hitler thought his method of cleansing the world would make the world a better place. To him, it was the greater good. To many others, it was 'evil.' I really do not like to make such blind generalizations aside from joking or media.
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People who kill because of horrible mental illness aren't considered "evil", they are considered "mentally disturbed" because it is assumed that without the illness they would not be doing such things.
Hitler wanted to rule the world, he knew what he was doing was wrong. If he didn't know what he was doing was wrong then why clear out the camps and commit suicide before he was invaded?Every girl loves a man in fancy pants! =)Posted 4 years ago # -
People who kill because of horrible mental illness aren't considered "evil", they are considered "mentally disturbed" because it is assumed that without the illness they would not be doing such things.
Hitler wanted to rule the world, he knew what he was doing was wrong. If he didn't know what he was doing was wrong then why clear out the camps and commit suicide before he was invaded?Well, actually he may be thinking that he was doing good.
He committed suicide as a matter of honour. Not falling into enemy hands etc. And also a suicide would probably been better than what he would have received for his acts if he was captured alive.
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People who kill because of horrible mental illness aren't considered "evil", they are considered "mentally disturbed" because it is assumed that without the illness they would not be doing such things.
Hitler wanted to rule the world, he knew what he was doing was wrong. If he didn't know what he was doing was wrong then why clear out the camps and commit suicide before he was invaded?Well, actually he may be thinking that he was doing good.
He committed suicide as a matter of honour. Not falling into enemy hands etc. And also a suicide would probably been better than what he would have received for his acts if he was captured alive.Yeah. To many people, especially those in a pretty powerful position, like Hitler, would rather die by his own hands than by captured by the enemy. Just because he evacuated etc. doesn't mean he knew what he was doing was wrong. He just obviously knew that if he was captured he would be extremely punished, or killed.
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Actually he probably would be interrogated a lot for a few weeks, and then confined to a maximum security prison for the rest of his life or killed. Either way, it wouldn't have been nice.
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I think people are inherently good. My reasoning is that, if you look at young children, they are good until they are influenced by society or family. I'm saying they are inheretly perfect, I just think that people are good until society shows them the "bad side of life." In the beginning, people only do what they know is right. When they are shown that they can do bad things, that is when their evil side comes out.
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Well you also have to look at Hitler's history. He was an illegitimate child, not all that attractive, wanted to become an artist but was a horrible one, and held a great dislike for the Catholic Church. His master plan basically ended with him taking over the Catholic Church and replacing it with his own brand of Christianity.
He was more into destroying those he saw as a threat, which were the populations that were more numerous, such as the Jews and the Catholic.
And does anybody find it ironic that Hitler himself did not resemble his view of the Arian race at all? And that the poster boy for Arianism and its "look" was actually a member of the Jewish community?Every girl loves a man in fancy pants! =)Posted 4 years ago # -
Yea, I've always thought that was ironic. The Aryan race was supposed to have blue eyes and blonde hair. Hitler had none of these attributes...
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Too lazy to read through everything, dunno if this point's been brought up.
"Good" and "Evil" are all human definitions, determined by society.
If we did not think of "Good" as being "Good", would we think that it's "Good"?
No, because that sentence didn't make sense.
Anyways, I don't know what to say until other people reply, but "Good" and "Evil" are not... they're not solid things. The speed of light is a fixed thing, it will never change. But "Good" and "Evil" can change.
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Large bump Ham, and you didn't even do your reasearch, the book was called Mein Kampf or my struggles. It wasn't about what he was going to do it was about what he did and his upbringing and such. Considered poorly written and some lies.
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hur hur, i wrote a book too.
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