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re: Are you a good person if you have no capacity for evil?

Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:08 pm to
Posted by GeauxxxTigers23
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Member since Apr 2013
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Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:08 pm to
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Excellent, Smithers. Excellent. Our plan has almost come to fruition.
Your self awareness disturbs me.
Posted by Hawgnsincebirth55
Gods country
Member since Sep 2016
18664 posts
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:17 pm to
Guess we can't get any intelligent conversation going on the ot
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299716 posts
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:20 pm to
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you have no capacity for evil?


Impossible
Posted by Hawgnsincebirth55
Gods country
Member since Sep 2016
18664 posts
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:23 pm to
So you believe every person in the world has evil thoughts?
Posted by nc14
La Jolla
Member since Jan 2012
28193 posts
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:25 pm to
Coronado Beach will do wonders in this regard.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
159092 posts
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:27 pm to
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Guess we can't get any intelligent conversation going on the ot
you guess?
Posted by BRgetthenet
Member since Oct 2011
118273 posts
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:37 pm to
Say baw!


Intelligent conversation [OFF]ON
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299716 posts
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:37 pm to
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So you believe every person in the world has evil thoughts?


At some time, yes
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
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Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:39 pm to
Majority of actions, good or bad, are done for selfish reasons.

For example most people don't do good deeds because they want to do the right thing, it's because they crave the attention and adulation of others for doing something good. See all the rich corrupt people who are "philanthropists".
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
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Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:41 pm to
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:45 pm to
The capability for murder lies in most all of us if we are pushed past a certain point.

For some the point is much easier to cross.

Some will kill you over scuffing their shoes.

Some over insulting their deity

Some only if you truly do something heinous. If you harm their family.


But rest assured the beast lurks.

Of course, one could argue that murder isn’t evil, just a reflection of the culture and social mores we dwell in.
Posted by ThatMakesSense
Fort Lauderdale
Member since Aug 2015
15281 posts
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:47 pm to
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For example most people don't do good deeds because they want to do the right thing, it's because they crave the attention and adulation of others for doing something good. See all the rich corrupt people who are "philanthropists".


You answered your own question.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299716 posts
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:54 pm to
Everyone straddles the line between dark and light many times in their life. Some just peer across, some cross over and back often and some set up camp on the dark side. We've all been there though, at least mentally.
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
71207 posts
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:54 pm to
Everyone has capacity for both good and evil.
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
Member since May 2012
61606 posts
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:55 pm to
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Of course, one could argue that murder isn’t evil,
murder is definitely not inherently evil

we value life too much these days
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
76206 posts
Posted on 11/29/17 at 9:02 pm to
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Im the best person on this site
You're not the best person in ANY scenario.
Posted by cj35
Member since Jan 2014
6153 posts
Posted on 11/29/17 at 9:05 pm to
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murder is definitely not inherently evil
murder may be inherently evil as it implies context, however I will agree that not all killing is evil.
Posted by ForeverEllisHugh
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2016
16684 posts
Posted on 11/29/17 at 9:05 pm to
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No such thing. There is no good/evil. There is only survival/death. If good deeds will help you survive long enough to propogate your genes then you have succeeded in nature. It’s simply a means to an end


You're better than this. That's such a reductionist fedora-tipping statement meant either to be purposefully obtuse or rationalize evil.
Posted by McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
35543 posts
Posted on 11/29/17 at 9:13 pm to
Simul Justus et Peccator
Posted by McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
35543 posts
Posted on 11/29/17 at 9:14 pm to
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You're better than this. That's such a reductionist fedora-tipping statement meant either to be purposefully obtuse or rationalize evil.


It has also been thoroughly debunked in even agnostic and atheistic philosophy and anthropology circles.
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