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Bad meets evil.
2005-02-10, 11:34 AM #41
Unfortunately the poll doesn't allow for "an amalgamation of A and B"
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2005-02-10, 11:45 AM #42
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Originally posted by maevie
Unfortunately the poll doesn't allow for "an amalgamation of A and B"


Now it does. Too bad so many people have already voted though.
2005-02-10, 11:47 AM #43
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Originally posted by TheRuleofThirds
I'd say that Mankind is good.

Objectively, there may not be good or evil. However, they both affect our emotions, which create our subjective sides and we often have a hard time seeing beyond that.

"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"

Life is full of causes and effects. When someone takes away something you love dearly and rely on, how can you not react to that? You may do nothing physically, but you do have to evaluate what's been done, how you feel about it, how you'll recover from the loss, did you deserve it, what does the person who stole from you deserve, will you forgive them. It's natural. It's just as natural to yank your finger away after you touch a hot stove. To not think about any of that just seems so impossible. (Even if it was possible, I can't imagine what a person could stand to gain from it.)

Regardless if it is possible to not react at all to evil (assuming you're mentally able to react or not react) I think most people are going to choose to live life in light of good and evil, pain and happiness, and they are going to choose to bring the least amount of pain upon themselves, which usually includes bringing the least amount of pain upon others. When you bend over backwards to help someone in dire need, you feel great. All the problems of your life seem to recede into the shadows of your mind temporarily and all you can think about is that there is still good in the world, you can be proud that you were responsible for making it happen, you put someone else above yourself for once, and you feel like grabbing the world by the horns. I'd hate to do something really nice for someone and not feel one way or another because I believed all actions were equal, neither good or bad, right or wrong. That would seriously have to suck more than I think a lot of people think. It's absurd. Sure, you dodge pain, but what's the point of living if you can't enjoy it, too?



Damn! Very well put. You are on my list of fav. people on this board now. and I agree. I voted that I believe mankind is good. I have not known one baby that's been born evil. everyone is innocent and happy at the beginning I feel that people tend to become conditioned to bad things as they experiance these learned behaviors throughout life. But at the bottom I feel mankind is good.

Laura
2005-02-10, 2:37 PM #44
If man is inherently good, then where would the evil come from? Why would evil come from society, the popular scape goat for evil? If man was inherently good, society would just be a lot of good people. Two goods don't make a bad.

BTW why it it that that most of the people who say that there is no good or bad are constantly bashing Bush for being bad/evil? Non Sequitur.
2005-02-10, 5:33 PM #45
Man is inherently good, society is inherently evil. You put man inside a society and society's evil starts to change man into evil.
"When it's time for this planet to die, you'll understand that you know absolutely nothing." — Bugenhagen
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