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What is "evil"?
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That which is harmful to man's life qua human being, I.e. The rational animal with volitional consciousness. Anything which interferes with his ability to reason and live by his own judgement.
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Do you believe that the Highest (God/Source/etc.) has a will?
I'm starting to believe that it doesn't. A will implies choice, and choice implies choosing from among various options within time and space. If the Highest is not limited by either, then it wouldn't have a will, and therefore there would be no "will of God" ... and subsequently, nothing inherently good or evil.
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Firstly, kudos for not asking "What is X?", but "How do you define 'X'?". :thumb:
Personally, I don´t seem to have any use for the word "evil".
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juvenissun
... and God saw that it was good.
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Everything that prevents you from going to the Heaven.
This definition is true in Christianity, it is also true in Buddhism.
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juvenissun
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This is not what Buddhism says. If you like Buddhism, this should be a serious problem to you.
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Everything that helps you to go to the Heaven.
Note: this definition is not "good" enough to Christianity. But it is "good" to Buddhism.
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So, abuse your pet is not evil?
Humanist can never have a good definition of evil. You are better off to pretend that evil does not exist.
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I would never dream of hurting an animal. I wonder what made you look for the gap in my statement.
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I would. Death always has an element of tragedy, though not as much if one is old and is at the natural end to one's lifespan.
Death (especially an untimely death or a murder) is an evil. It is something to be avoided if one can help it.
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I eat meat, so I don't have any problem, in principle, with using non-human animals for my ends, even if there might be suffering involved. I draw the line at pets because there are human beings that suffer when pet animals are mistreated. I don't want human beings to suffer, and so I support special legal protections for pet animals.
Furthermore, I want even food animals to encounter no pointless suffering, but that is only because I don't want to see human beings nourish cruelty or insensitivity in themselves. It is again for their sake that I would want to limit suffering to animals.
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Buddha stated that things are either skillful or non-skillful; everything is subject to birth/creation, preservation, and death/destruction, but none of the three are inherently good or evil.
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