Re: What do you think evil is?
As others have stated, personally to me it's just a word or judgment often affected by cultural and/or religious environments or even by species. A human might say, "Murder is evil", but from the ground on which a murdered corpse lay, countless insects and molds and fungi might say (if we were to personalize them) "This is good, I have food now". We might say that's "gross", because we see the faces of our fellow man devoured by tiny creatures which bear diseases harmful or deadly to us. We fear darkness because symbolically speaking, therein predators lurk, and many associate evil with 'darkness' out of this viewpoint and sense of symbology, with 'light' or 'white' being good - while to many, white is the pallor of death and darkness the aura of wisdom.
It is ALL subjective, to me.
That being said...speaking from my own personal experience and viewpoint and set of beliefs, there are certain things that as MaskedOne put it, "trip my 'Kill it with fire' line" and incite a special kind of rage in me. Animal abuse, cruelty and murder of the innocent or powerless or compromised, tyranny, and demonizing/vilifying/punishing the innocent being some of the biggest hot button issues for me. I myself am all for the little guy and all against tyrannical authority and rampant cruelty. But that's because of the way I am and the life I've lived and these eyes I see through, and I realize that on some level.
As others have stated, personally to me it's just a word or judgment often affected by cultural and/or religious environments or even by species. A human might say, "Murder is evil", but from the ground on which a murdered corpse lay, countless insects and molds and fungi might say (if we were to personalize them) "This is good, I have food now". We might say that's "gross", because we see the faces of our fellow man devoured by tiny creatures which bear diseases harmful or deadly to us. We fear darkness because symbolically speaking, therein predators lurk, and many associate evil with 'darkness' out of this viewpoint and sense of symbology, with 'light' or 'white' being good - while to many, white is the pallor of death and darkness the aura of wisdom.
It is ALL subjective, to me.
That being said...speaking from my own personal experience and viewpoint and set of beliefs, there are certain things that as MaskedOne put it, "trip my 'Kill it with fire' line" and incite a special kind of rage in me. Animal abuse, cruelty and murder of the innocent or powerless or compromised, tyranny, and demonizing/vilifying/punishing the innocent being some of the biggest hot button issues for me. I myself am all for the little guy and all against tyrannical authority and rampant cruelty. But that's because of the way I am and the life I've lived and these eyes I see through, and I realize that on some level.
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