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Author Topic:   Making Sense of Evil (Virginia Tech Massacre)
hooah212002
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Message 106 of 110 (587786)
10-20-2010 7:19 PM
Reply to: Message 105 by Damouse
10-20-2010 6:22 PM


Re: Evil?
Im not sure what you meant when you said that, hooah.
When I said what?
quote:
selfish, greedy, or uncaring
Those are harsh terms?

"What can be asserted without proof, can be dismissed without proof."-Hitch.

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Damouse
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Message 107 of 110 (587787)
10-20-2010 7:30 PM
Reply to: Message 106 by hooah212002
10-20-2010 7:19 PM


Re: Evil?
quote:
True enough, but if we got rid of religion we would not eradicate the propensity for evil.
Ah, my bad. I misread it as your quote. Nvm.
quote:
Those are harsh terms?
Its an incredibly harsh way to detail morality.

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hooah212002
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Message 108 of 110 (587788)
10-20-2010 7:34 PM
Reply to: Message 107 by Damouse
10-20-2010 7:30 PM


Re: Evil?
Its an incredibly harsh way to detail morality.
Neither myself or Phat has done as such. He was using those terms to define evil for his statement that people are inherently good and evil.

"What can be asserted without proof, can be dismissed without proof."-Hitch.

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Damouse
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Message 109 of 110 (587789)
10-20-2010 7:45 PM
Reply to: Message 108 by hooah212002
10-20-2010 7:34 PM


Re: Evil?
Its an incredibly harsh way to detail morality.
Neither myself or Phat has done as such. He was using those terms to define evil for his statement that people are inherently good and evil.
I believe that people are both good and evil. Evil in this case defined as selfish, greedy, or uncaring of others needs.
Leaving aside semantic arguments, i went ahead and called his description of evil part of a larger description of morality. Im not sure where you take offense to this.
As taken from the dictionary for "morality":
quote:
conformity to the rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct.
If Phat is describing the wrong conduct, he is describing part of morality. I judged the way the he described it as harsh.

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hooah212002
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Message 110 of 110 (587790)
10-20-2010 7:55 PM
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10-20-2010 7:45 PM


Re: Evil?
Leaving aside semantic arguments, i went ahead and called his description of evil part of a larger description of morality. Im not sure where you take offense to this.
Ok, I gotcha now.

"What can be asserted without proof, can be dismissed without proof."-Hitch.

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