Knowledge is evil

Evil has always been with us. With knowledge, there is not more evil, only more sophisticated forms of evil!

I agree with Phoenix here, (scary because we are sooooo different) and also submit that we may only be more AWARE of the evil around us due to technology. Example TV: We always had war, but Vietnam was sort of live on TV so we react differently because we were exposed as a mass population to it.

Also with the population growth maybe more of the animal in us comes out. We are less willing perhaps to share space because it seems there is less of it. More selfishness, greed (because again we SEE more of the disproportionate wealth. Just a Thought, Free Duck are you in here?

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Evil is not an inherent condition of nature. It is a judgment imposed on the world by us humans.

Good and Evil only exist because we humans label things as such.

I disagree. We label things as "good" or "evil" to certain things, but even though the words are tools, the inherent meaning behind the words are real.

If one person kills another, we might call it evil. Unless that person killed in self defense, or to save another innocent life. The act of killing itself is neither good or evil, it is simply an act. It is the judgement we place on the act which makes it good or evil. And since those judgments are subjective, there is no universal quality of good or evil.

You probably disagree, but hey my two cents. :wink:

I disagree. No living, conscious, rational being would want to be killed.

er suicide?????

Yup, I disagree (for reasons stated previously). But that's ok.

Do you consider yourself a religious person?

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er suicide?????

Here's my view on suicide: When people are suicidal, people think that 'they' will be free from their suffering when they die, however they do not fully grasp that once they die there might be no 'them' (meaning no life, and end of the pattern and continuation of conscious life that is 'them').

I once also felt suicidal, and when I asked lots of people in my class whether they have once in their life ever felt suicidal, amd they all surprisingly replied yes. Of course this is no where near to that of people who is suffering from major depression.

ok i dont see how that does anything thing to my arguement as u say that "No living, conscious, rational being would want to be killed" and i have given you people that do but if sucidal people arent enough


what about people who want to be euthanised (or have euthnasia done to them)
you cannot argue with that with what u said before as that was and opinion that doesnt agree nor disagree so please if you are going to put a statement like that down please be prepared to have arguements for your reasoning behind it

Suicide is cheating. We all want to get to the end eventually, but most of us will agree it's not a race.