Evil and HUmnas

It's weird: Cruelty. Humans inflicting misery on humans. If someone killed your father you would feel a certain degree of grief. You would probably want revenge. Knowing this, how can men kill thousands of humans each day? It seems impossible. I cannot, must not believe it. Evil cannot exist. 

Think about it. The other day, I saw a photo of an american political figure with his family. Underneath, there was a photo of a family dying. Impossible. He killed them and still had the heart to hug his own children. I wonder what he tells them; Oh I kill people all around the world for fun: women and children and men...oh and I love you. If you had been born in the East I would've killed you. 

It's incredible. How can any human do it. My argument is not limited to America. I talk of humanity...right down to bullying. You hit a kid, just because he's there. He's a human damn it! Try wounding someone in cold blood and you'll see what I mean. It's an act 

repugnant to humanity, but then humans are never humane. A rather grim irony. 

I have but one question; WHEN DID YOU FORSAKE YOURSELVES? 
A child will never do such a thing. He is taught inhumanity...and there comes a time when his pride strips him of all humanity. A point when he forsakes himself and his humanity, plundering and looting without cause or conscience.

I couldn't believe in EVIL when I was younger. I never could hurt anybody...it seemed so perfectly unnatural. 

Now I don't know what to think. No human could hurt another if he were in his right mind. Damn it!

 

Reviews

[Mike Wolfe]

Fact is, there are two sides to this coin. Evil and love. But love is a choice, which means there has to be something else to choose from. Something as compelling as love, evil. Good and evil are black and white. Some people mentioned conscience...a story is told in Indian folklore conscience is a triangle stone in the heart, and when you do something evil, it turns and the sides bit into the heart. But after time the points get eroded. But now the question is, who decides evil? A human? Everyone would have different rules. Doesn't work. But what if we had God who created us and told us what evil really is and what the rules are. If evolution were true, than why are we moral? According to evolution if I were to walk in, kill a girl's boyfriend and rape her, I've done good. Because I was stronger than her boyfriend, I was smart enough to bring a gun. He shouldn't reproduce, but my seed must go on. Ask most people and they would say that is completely wrong. And I agree. I believe in a God. Who created morality and gave the choice to his people...love or evil. When we chose evil in the garden, he sent his son to take the penalty for that evil. All we need to do is accept the gift and surrender to God.

[SOUL LESS]

Exactly, My Philosophy on Philosophy. Couldn't have put it better myself. Well, maybe I could have. But yes, God must decide. And continuing on from the disagreement principle, a religion with a single God. No partners at all, or we have the same problem as we do with humans; except that they would be much more powerful and their arguing would destroy the world.

[Mike Wolfe]

Precisely, and if we were created by God, then he decides the rules. That determines what is evil, and what is good.

[Smarmadon21]

The world is filled with shades of gray, there are so many areas that cannot simply be black or white. The labels of good and evil are creations that our species applies to actions that we find displeasing. What one views as evil, another may view as necessary. This politician you mentioned, I assume you mean to say that he is involved in the military in some sense and ordered an airstrike or bombing that killed civilians. In his mind, this was regrettable, but not evil. Even with what I've stated, to deny that such a notion or actions exist is juvenile. There are those who gladly wrap themselves in the cloak of evil and act accordingly. Would you deny serial killers exist? Would you deny that dictators do no do things that are deplorable and evil. If you do, then you need to expand your world view.

[SOUL LESS]

Shades of gray? Now why does that ring a most unpleasant bell. Evil Exists. Yes. I just do not see, how it can possibly exist. It does not make sense.
"What one views as evil, another may view as necessary" or even good. Mankind cannot decide what is wrong and what is right, what is good or what is evil. I cannot say, what you believe is wrong, because what I believe is right. It is a fundamental contradiction. I wrote on this topic, titled "My Philosophy on Philosophy". I don't think I have put it up yet.

Thanks for reading! :)

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

If "mankind cannot decide what is wrong and what is right, what is good or what is evil," how then can you determine what evil is when you yourself have just made that decision. The answer: because mankind does determine what is wrong or right, and thankfully so. Otherwise, the world would completely tilt on its access and go spiralling into outer space until the weight of all the lawlessness in the world. We are human. We have a conscience. We innately know what is right and wrong. That's what keeps us on the right track. When man truly loses his ability to know the difference or to care, that's when you see true evil.

[SOUL LESS]

Conscience, huh? Well, it does exist, but it's debatable. For example, different people across different national boundaries have different ideas about what is wrong and what is right. e.g. homosexuality, slavery, socialism etc. So, do people across different boundaries have different consciences? They do not. Mankind cannot decide what is wrong or right. It is fundamentally (because I love the word!) flawed.

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

We are endowed with free will and a conscience. Mankind decides what is wrong or right, according to his own volition. That doesn't necessarily mean that he's always wrong nor that he's always right. I think we all strive to do the best we can, except in those instances where people willfully, knowingly perpetrate evil against another. And that, in and of itself, is a conscious act of doing what is known to be wrong.

[Calissa Knox]

This is very interesting, and also very sad. I do feel our world is falling into darkness, more and more every day, it seems. I think this chapter brings the effect of that into light.

A wonderfully written chapter. You write with insight, and strong emotion.

[SOUL LESS]

I just do not get it. How can this even exist? Why does this exist?

[Calissa Knox]

Many people are corrupt and evil, and they have been able to influence our culture today. Evil can look good on the outside, like an escape for some. Temptation drags people into an addiction with evil. Often, people feel they need to hurt others to ease the pain inside themselves.

[SOUL LESS]

That could be a reason. I don't know. Temptation, yes, is terribly powerful, and blind. Thanks for reading :)

[Calissa Knox]

It was my pleasure. :)

[SOUL LESS]

Could you read my quotes, too? :) :)

[SOUL LESS]

And you should definitely make the acquaintance of one, Anne Shirley. Read the book if you can: Anne of the Green Gables.

[Calissa Knox]

I would love to read your quotes. :) Where can I find them?

[SOUL LESS]

That is certainly good to hear :) There you go: I made them up :)
http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/FanWarrior/676128/

[Calissa Knox]

I really liked your quotes! :)

[SOUL LESS]

Thanks :) So did I :p

[Calissa Knox]

That's great. :)

[Ibreez Shabkhez]

Well... I can certainly find it in my heart to hurt you if I get that chance. It is all a cycle of habit, thrill, curiosity and convenience.