http://antilapsarian.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] antilapsarian.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] monk222 2009-01-01 12:27 pm (UTC)

Re: Nature of Evil

Didn't have much time to look, but took a quick glance. I'm with you most of the way...esp. appreciation that the usual def of evil is either not fully analyzed or bound up in personal/power issues. I'm definitely sympathetic to evolutionary notions about the benefits of altruism. Perhaps evil then is a kind of socially selfish behavior that fails to regard others as oneself?

But that opens a can of worms for me about not giving to the homeless who ask for change here in Chicago. It definitely makes me feel guilty to say no sometimes...one could make the argument that is a kind of evil.

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