Are evil people bad people and are bad people evil people?

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  1. Kali The World's Best Communist

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    And furthermore, what's wrong with being bad or evil?
  2. Karakoran Well-Known Member

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    I'd say be default, yes. Though there's certainly exceptions. It's really just arguing semantics like the "is wisdom the same as intelligence" thread.
  3. Kali The World's Best Communist

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    I really don't expect someone of your age to understand the title, but I had my hopes up that you'd at least read the OP.
  4. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    Does good and evil exist? Its all based 0ff of what we view as evil or bad. For example many members of the forums view you as the evil person of the forums. It's all perspective man.
  5. Imperial1917 City-States God of War

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    I lol'd. Did you?
  6. Kali The World's Best Communist

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    Since the title is clearly too difficult for anyone to bother with answering (and in this instance that's not solely your own faults), focus on the content of the OP.
  7. Soviet Streltsy Well-Known Member

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    Being a bad person (generally, people who don't care for their fellow humans in favor of their own well-being and wealth, not to much unlike yourself) does not make you an evil person. Just as being a good person (generally, being a helpful and considerate member of society. Varying with individual prespective) does not make you a saint.
  8. Kali The World's Best Communist

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    Now see, this answers the title, but doesn't answer the OP.
  9. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    There's no such thing as evil Kali, you know this. But no, there is nothing wrong with being bad. Because some people will always think you are bad for them.
  10. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    Like I said it is all a matter of perspective. People view bad or evil as like being Hitler which is by there opinion wrong.
  11. Soviet Streltsy Well-Known Member

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    Because generally, most people don't appreciate other people who don't give a shit about their equals.
  12. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    Why should anybody give a shit about anything?
  13. Soviet Streltsy Well-Known Member

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    Because Humanity was not geared for solitude.
  14. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    That doesn't really answer my question.
  15. Soviet Streltsy Well-Known Member

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    To "not give a shit about anything" is be in solitude, and to be in solitude is destructive to a human. Just as rust eats away at metal, solitude eats away what makes a human what he is.
  16. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    I don't know where you get the idea that not giving a shit its equivalent to living in solitude.
  17. Soviet Streltsy Well-Known Member

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    When's the last time you intentionally talked to and was friends with a cynical douchebag who can't appreciate what he has been given? If a human being can't be bothered to give a damn about anything, than he is no better than an empty tin can. He lives in a self-made solitude that only serves to isolate him from the rest of humanity.
  18. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    Eh you're probably right.
  19. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    I've meet lots of people who like to live in solitude or are cynical douchebag and they all seemed fine to me, they just generally didn't like people, and I can understand their position.
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    Being bad and evil is just a way of labeling things or people that is to complicated for them to understand. Bad and evil is somthing people label due to hormonal chemical response in the brain. People use these words to justify there primitive reactions to something that is unpleasent and confusing to them.

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