The Problem of Evil

[Gabby GaGa]

what is evil about killing out of boredom? I'm just curious because I've been asking what evil was because you know I'm just wondering...
Quite honestly, nothing.
Dont jump to conclusions just yet.
Evil is simply a word to describe any deviouse act that doesn't fit in with societies standards.

Evil, in my opinion, seems to be a term used to describe any act that goes against biology.
Homosexuality, murder, and even disfigurments.
(remember in the middle ages, when a simple bilogical disfiguremnt was often concidered
to be a work of the devil?)

So this unnatural act, described as evil, seems to be an observed biological deviance.
However, there are varying degrees of evil.

There's a pshycologist, his name escapes me at the moment,
who developed a scale of evil. There are 22 levels, each incremental number more evil then
the last.
Level 1 murders are "the least evil":
(those that are mentally diseased, and don't know any better)
level 22 is reserved for the coldest murderers. These are the people who go against their biology
entierly.
Homicide is a perversion of biology.
Biology glitch = social notion of evil.
Im too tired to read through this.

[Emu]

Murder, homosexuality and disfigurement are actually quite in line with "biology." Animals of all kinds regularly murder eachother, even members of their own species, and a goodly number of "higher" animals have been seen to engage in vigorous homosexual activity. I would direct you to the bonobo.

[kahljorn]

thanks emu that was going to be my response...

so if disfigurements are evil, does that mean whatever caused the disfigurement is evil? Bad genes? A rock they fell on? Bad diet? Some other unconscious-able thing? Any act that goes against biology would make... a lot of things evil.

honestly so far there hasn't been a good answer to that question.

anyway... I'm not going to repeat myself to gagagofuck since we've already gone over Nietzsche pretty much in entirety.

[kahljorn]

do you guys think it's immoral when people place their ability to be moral entirely in the hands of god? Such as people who say morality can't exist without god, or can't exist outside the church?
I kind of do.

[Emu]

Yes, because they're essentially saying that in the absence of God they would be immoral assholes who would rape and pillage on a whim. You know who to avoid depending on their answer to the question "Would you be moral without god?"

By the way GabbyGaGa or whatever by your reasoning if going against biology is evil then it's morally justifiable to kill someone who isn't of your extended family/tribe.

[kahljorn]

yea but somebody who says they are moral because of god would also say morality exists because of god ;o

I don't even want to talk philosophy with gabbygaga around she might be using it for her book or something.

[Emu]

Yeah but then you get into the debate about whether God created morality (and morality is therefore arbitrary) or whether god obeys a pre-existing morality and therefore god is not omnipotent and something existed before god and where did that come from and where are my keys

[Gabby GaGa]

kahl
"so if disfigurements are evil, does that mean whatever caused the disfigurement is evil?

Originally Posted by kahl

Bad genes? A rock they fell on? Bad diet? Some other unconscious-able thing? Any act that
goes against biology would make... a lot of things evil."
where did I state that disfiguments are evil? I cited a period in history that believed
disfigurments were evil .

Originally Posted by gaga

Evil, in my opinion, seems to be a term used to describe any act that goes against biology.
Homosexuality, murder, and even disfigurments.
(remember in the middle ages, when a simple bilogical disfiguremnt was often concidered
to be a work of the devil?)
So this unnatural act, described as evil, seems to be an observed biological deviance. "

Read more carefully before you respond
so that you don't make an ass of yourself.

Originally Posted by emu

By the way GabbyGaGa or whatever by your reasoning if going against biology is evil then it's
morally justifiable to kill someone who isn't of your extended family/tribe.

All humans are part of the same species.
Killing of your own species is a form of suicide. Suicide is a contradiction of biology
because biology's sole perpose is to continue life.


God himself is a description of morality.