evil is putting your desires before other people’s needs or wellbeing. it’s an important distinction and needs to be used regardless of religious context.
No, the word your looking for that fits the definition given is ‘selfishness’. Just about every living organism on the planet instinctually puts themselves and their own continued survival as #1. Do you think all animals and plants and micro bacteria and viruses evil because living things compete for resources instead of sharing while singing cum-bai-yah in perfect harmony?
It sucks that people care about themselves more than others but that’s not evil its a natural aspect of being an individual organism trying to navigate a harsh sometimes cruel world. Adknowledging that aspect of living things without retrofitting it into some definition morality is important to understanding reality.
You might be able to argued a true narcicist psychopath who cares about nothing but themselves and couldn’t care less if everyone else dies as long as their comfort is maintained is evil but that’s a nuanced position that required more than 15 seconds to type.
Spend a few minutes thinking up a proper definition of evil or copy paste one from someone who has.
I don’t think you read my comment carefully enough before you smugly assumed I never thought about this before. you’re wrong. what i described is not what every living organism does, and even if it was, a vacuous appeal to nature wouldn’t really affect my judgment over human behavior.
evil is putting your desires before other people’s needs or wellbeing. it’s an important distinction and needs to be used regardless of religious context.
No, the word your looking for that fits the definition given is ‘selfishness’. Just about every living organism on the planet instinctually puts themselves and their own continued survival as #1. Do you think all animals and plants and micro bacteria and viruses evil because living things compete for resources instead of sharing while singing cum-bai-yah in perfect harmony?
It sucks that people care about themselves more than others but that’s not evil its a natural aspect of being an individual organism trying to navigate a harsh sometimes cruel world. Adknowledging that aspect of living things without retrofitting it into some definition morality is important to understanding reality.
You might be able to argued a true narcicist psychopath who cares about nothing but themselves and couldn’t care less if everyone else dies as long as their comfort is maintained is evil but that’s a nuanced position that required more than 15 seconds to type.
Spend a few minutes thinking up a proper definition of evil or copy paste one from someone who has.
I don’t think you read my comment carefully enough before you smugly assumed I never thought about this before. you’re wrong. what i described is not what every living organism does, and even if it was, a vacuous appeal to nature wouldn’t really affect my judgment over human behavior.