How do we define evil 26 Articles

by Potato King

Evil as we know it is simply a deviation from expectation. As beings burdened with such biological processes as age and sickness and whatnot, we have been forced to impose order on everything, if not for survival, then to...read more

by Juanita Swyney

Evil I'm sure does not have to be defined for people to understand, exactly what evil is. We are living in a world where we are just plagued with evil. There is good and bad and even a little child is taught what is good ...read more

by Scott Shaffer

Evil. What is it? Who defines it? These questions have only been asked aloud in the last couple of decades. Evil by definition is "a broad term used to indicate a negative moral or ethical judgment, often used to descr...read more

by Jeremy Jameson

Evil is the absence of good. It's a cancer, a perversion. Everything that is good has an evil counterpart: God and Satan, Life and Death, Purity and Sin. Evil serves no real purpose other than to ruin and destroy. In c...read more

by Peta Cameron

Evil is a very difficult concept for some people to define. Different cultures always tend to have a different answer as to what evil means. According to the horror involved in certain experiences in life, it is usually a ...read more

by A. Major

Evil does not have to come in the form of Darth Vader all dressed in black to be ominous to us. Evil is the ability to hurt and how we use this potential ability to harm others. Evil can be as miniscule or as minute as a...read more

by James J C

The true definition of evil is subjective. While the Oxford dictionary defines evil as "Very immoral or wicked," "extremely unpleasant," and "something harmful or undesirable," surely we cannot see things so simplistically...read more

by One Believer

Humans define evil as what they have been shown or taught to be evil; for many years in America black people were thought of as evil or lesser than any other people. While black families were taught that white people were...read more

by Thaxton Lewis

I do not think we can necessarily define evil. However, we can define acts of evil. Usually an act of evil is when we unnecessarily impose our will on a weaker person. I did not say living being because their is some...read more

by Craig Hawkins

Evil and religion have long gone hand in hand. Many people in the Dark Ages were picked out as evil, for being witches or changelings. Evil in its strictest original definition does not just mean very bad, it means very ba...read more

by Samuel Lacks

Evil is of course a human concept and is directly related to human affairs. Someone chops a tree down: a little pointless but no biggie. Someone chops a child down: evil human being. Evil is how we deem an action, we no lo...read more

by Janet Grischy

Guides to good conduct are not hard to find. The Ten Commandments are one. The Beatitudes are another. In fact, all of the Sermon on the Mount, with the injunction to "Love your neighbor as yourself," and also to, "love Go...read more

by Eric Lannak

Defining Evil is, unfortunately, a highly personal thing. One thing that is clear, however, is that people usually do not want to be Evil. Historically we would use Hitler, Sadam Hussein, Pol Pot, and a slew of other l...read more

by AMERICAN MAN

In ethics we speak of evil as unconscionable advantage taken knowingly: generally speaking. The greatest social / political / moral definition for men amongst men is clearly articulated within THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDEN...read more

by Matthew Martin

Living life on the earth plane is like playing a great game. And since we are given free will (by divine right of the Grand Game Master) one of the rules is that we must choose either good or evil. It would seem obvious ...read more

by Sweetsmile

I looked it up in my dictionary, and find one of the meanings: "Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind", and "Something that is a cause ...read more

by Charles Johnson

Since every country may have a different idea about what the word "evil" is, we can only go by how we believe that it works in every day life.If we think that something is morally wrong this does not mean it is evil.A ev...read more

by Vernon Huffman

We all know evil when we see it. Senseless harm. Needless destruction. We all know evil and to some extent we all do evil, but I have yet to meet the person who intends to do evil. Solzhenitsyn expressed the idea beauti...read more

by Michael Thomson

Evil. It is not something which can be defined, despite the simplicity of grasping the concept of it. WE are all evil, yet we are all good. What we see is a gray but whether that gray is dark or light depends on the type o...read more

by Judith Krouse

Define Evil Defining evil, by man's standards is quite varied. It can mean hatred, wars, hunger, disease, problems, trials, or anything that does not go the way a person thinks it should. If someone disagrees with him...read more