Ok when I'm waiting for a bus in the cold and the wind is blowing...cold is definately something! And evil...true evil has a purpose...not one I get or like but it is definately there.
So at the very least, phenomenologically evil has thing-ness, not merely lack-of-thingness. Hmm. "Phenomenological evil" and "phenomenological good" ... I'm going to have to play with those concepts a bit and see where they take me.
"true evil has a purpose...not one I get or like but it is definately there."
Could I get you to expand on that a bit? Are you suggesting there's more than one kind of evil, qualitatively, and you're labelling one of those "true evil"? And are you saying that evil acts have purpose (e.g. malice), or that evil exists as a meta-force inducing people to do evil things? Or am I completely misunderstanding you on all fronts?
The person behind what we would consider evil has some purpose in mind. Hitler for example wanted to rid the world of the unpure. But we consider his actions evil. I suppose what im trying to say is that evil is often in the eyes of the beholder. People who do evil acts do not consider the acts to be so. In fact they often feel as if what they are doing is an act of God. Since I do not believe in God or the Devil, the only real concept of evil I have is one of going against what society believes is Good. I know this is not makeing much sense.
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"true evil has a purpose...not one I get or like but it is definately there."
Could I get you to expand on that a bit? Are you suggesting there's more than one kind of evil, qualitatively, and you're labelling one of those "true evil"? And are you saying that evil acts have purpose (e.g. malice), or that evil exists as a meta-force inducing people to do evil things? Or am I completely misunderstanding you on all fronts?
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