... You deserve a kiss.LostAlone said:The title you were looking for is 'Do evil thoughts make a person evil ?'retyopy said:No one seems to be able to come up with a better title... what a shame.
... You deserve a kiss.LostAlone said:The title you were looking for is 'Do evil thoughts make a person evil ?'retyopy said:No one seems to be able to come up with a better title... what a shame.
Why did you spoiler it?Sober Thal said:Horrible title, not sure if anyone mentioned that to you. You should really change it. It doesn't make any sense. Change it now. Stop reading this and change the title.
Now that that's out of the way...
What I just typed above doesn't make me evil. It may make me a shit head for this moment in time, but not evil.
Does not doing evil make you evil? No
Does being a bad person or a shit head about something make you evil? No.
Does committing an evil deed make you evil? Yes.
EDIT: Damn, you changed the title already...
Acting on evil thoughts make you evil.
that's pretty much my thoughts.TheDarkEricDraven said:The person in your example is evil, yes. There is a difference between "Having fantasies of raping and killing", and "Only holding back out of fear of getting caught".
So Hitler, whose basic raison d'etre was to raise post WWI Germany out of its malaise, is a good guy, by the above definition?ConstantErasing said:Well, without going too deep into the subject of good and evil, I would say yes. To me evil is defined by intentions not actions. A person like James is evil, where as a person who commits evil deeds for the sake of good or by accident is not. They are still committing evil deeds and should be treated appropriately but they are not evil.
Well, his intention was to use pogrom as a method.NSGrendel said:So Hitler, whose basic raison d'etre was to raise post WWI Germany out of its malaise, is a good guy, by the above definition?ConstantErasing said:Well, without going too deep into the subject of good and evil, I would say yes. To me evil is defined by intentions not actions. A person like James is evil, where as a person who commits evil deeds for the sake of good or by accident is not. They are still committing evil deeds and should be treated appropriately but they are not evil.
Even if his methodology involved pogrom?