Badness, Evil, and Hello

[PapaLandShark]

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Firstly, Hello.

Moreover: badness, evil? Difference, synonyms? Opinions? Mad dances?

Nietzsche, for example, considered evil to be the resentful conclusion of individuals who didn't have the gall to actually change things -- for him, appropriately, the historical ideal is the priest, who upholds religious conceptions that say such things as "you disagree with me and my conception and you'll eternally burn for it!". From the Nietzschean watchtower, there is no evil; there is only badness in contradistinction to goodness -- this badness, for his power-centered psychological interpretation, is whatever that results from weakness; goodness, then, is related to power.

Is evil just an extreme degree of badness? Or is, as I would have it, badness a polar opposite to goodness, both terms understood in a pragmatic sense, whatever values are entailed in such a sense?

Well, if this works -- if badness is not-goodness, and goodness is not-badness, both ideas related to one's values -- what is evil?

Ok, ok, apparently I'll never learn to make easily understood threads, so:

Define, if you will:

1) Goodness

2) Badness

3) Evil

4) Demonism as it relates to Martha Stewart (she just ain't nice, folks, she just ain't nice).

Good to see you all.

Ok...first of all you owe me a soda ( a *good* one ) for number 4)

Second...Welcome back.

Third...this is really a philosophy thread. Goodness, Badness, Evil...none of this is specific to General Apologetics.

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[Maxwell511]

1) Goodness

Acts based on sympathy and empathy.

2) Badness

Ego-centric acts without the intention of causing harm to others. However due to a lack of empathy they do so.

3) Evil

Ego-centric acts with the prior knowledge that said acts will cause harm to others.

4) Demonism as it relates to Martha Stewart (she just ain't nice, folks, she just ain't nice).

Leprauchans.

Good to see you all.

From a practical stand point.

1. Forgiving someone that has wronged you: good.

2. Flying into a rage and striking them and accidentally killing them (manslaughter): bad

3. Plotting to kill them as a result of their wrong doing (murder): evil

4. Leprauchans=Satan