I don't mean to give you the impression that I think individual people are evil. I've never known a person who seemed irredeemably bad.*** There may be such people, but I wouldn't want to be the one to judge. Most people do all kinds of good and bad things all the time. So when I say I see evidence of evil in the human realm, I don't mean to say, "Oh Neutron Jack, he's eeevil!" or anything like that. But it's in the human realm that I see people taken advantage of, people suffering for want of things that it ought to be easy to have, people teasing or mocking others to no purpose, people destroying things for no good reason (or for reasons I think are bad)--that stuff. And elements of that are what I'd call evil (not all of it. Earthquakes cause suffering, but I don't think they're evil. Viruses cause suffering, but I don't think they're evil, etc.)
***Annnnd, that implies I feel capable of judging. But what I mean is, when I've met miserable, nasty, unfriendly people, it usually also turns out they have some thing or other--something they've done, or some thing they value, or something, that makes them seem less nasty and miserable.
But okay... I see that i'm pretty judgmental, really....
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Date: 2011-04-15 02:30 pm (UTC)I don't mean to give you the impression that I think individual people are evil. I've never known a person who seemed irredeemably bad.*** There may be such people, but I wouldn't want to be the one to judge. Most people do all kinds of good and bad things all the time. So when I say I see evidence of evil in the human realm, I don't mean to say, "Oh Neutron Jack, he's eeevil!" or anything like that. But it's in the human realm that I see people taken advantage of, people suffering for want of things that it ought to be easy to have, people teasing or mocking others to no purpose, people destroying things for no good reason (or for reasons I think are bad)--that stuff. And elements of that are what I'd call evil (not all of it. Earthquakes cause suffering, but I don't think they're evil. Viruses cause suffering, but I don't think they're evil, etc.)
***Annnnd, that implies I feel capable of judging. But what I mean is, when I've met miserable, nasty, unfriendly people, it usually also turns out they have some thing or other--something they've done, or some thing they value, or something, that makes them seem less nasty and miserable.
But okay... I see that i'm pretty judgmental, really....