Re: virus: Evil: it's all in our minds

Eric Boyd (6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca)
Fri, 14 Jun 1996 19:12:34 -0500


Mike Jay wrote:

> Level 3. Understand that evil only exists because good does. Embrace
> the duality, and learn to see that only through /conscious/ action can
> we avoid evil.
>
> You asserting something here that has holes...evil is not user
> defined.

What?! Evil has always been user defined by my way of thinking. I
agree that most "societies" today formalize "evil" in laws and such, but
there is little or no agreement between societies about what _is_ evil.
There's that little word again, eh? Take the "is" out and the truth of
what I'm saying becomes obvious. "There appears to be little or no
agreement between societies about what _seems_ evil." It's almost a
tautolgy! Things do not have essences!

ERiC