: About Me

The challenge we face in defining evil is that the word is inextricably bound to religious, moral, societal and even legal codes: thus all the excellent definitions on this page are worthy attempts at defining evil, but still lacking. We need to go back in anthropological terms to a pre-literate world in which our forebears, grouped in hunter-gatherer communities or even prior to communal living, were faced with what to do with people who stole or killed other people. There were no laws. There was no religious structure, not formally at least-many pre-literate groups would have had what we...