What measure is evil?

[Vegosiux]

Can the unit be in Hitlers? That was an act of evil measuring 1x10^-5 Hitlers.

That has to be the funniest invocation of Godwin I have ever seen.

But, what is evil? In a humorous tone, let's say that when someone eats babies, kicks puppies and writes catchy sales pitches, that last one is seriously messed up.

In a less humorous tone, getting your kicks out of fucking up stuff for others is pretty much evil on any level.

 

[TwiZtah]

Evil is not scientific, nor a phenomenon derived from observation. Evil is a stupid word invented by small minds to explain things they do not understand.

That's what I believe, anyway. I hate the concepts of good and evil, and I think they simplify things way too much for them to be viable to be used in any meaningful discussion.

Hitler was evil? Please. Hitler was changing the world in a way that suited his tastes. A lot of you would do the same thing if you could, yet you always imply that Hitler is the standard for evil, not yourselves. There are many other words we could describe Hitler with: selfish, intolerant, extreme, severe, biased, prejudiced. Any of them work and explain things so much better than just shutting down our brains, taking out the label of "evil" and slapping it on without any other thought.

The word "evil" is very general and doesn't have a specific definition. That's why it can so often be misused, and that's why you will never understand anything or anyone for whom you only use the word "evil" as description. It's a childish term, really, and I cringe every time I play a game and the only thing I hear about the enemy faction is that "they're evil".

I think you can give someone like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Atkins the attribute of being evil, because it's just too much of a hassle to say all the attributes that is most oftenly associated with evil.

 

[snagli]

So corporate greed is 16 million times worse than mass genocide of 11 million people? SEEMS LEGIT!

Ofc its legit. Jew genotcide is nothing compared to what corporations did collectively.

Let me give you a list of a few things.

Day one DLC
DLC in general
Digitally distrubuted games
Microtransactions
Hats in Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 itself

If you're dumb enough to EVER buy any of these things, you are a fool who will be quickly parted with their money.

That's what corporations do. They weed out the idiots of the world by putting out pointless and greedy shit and say "Alright, who's dumb enough to actually pay money for this?"

That's nowhere NEAR as evil or vile as MASS FUCKING MURDER and ATTEMPTED WORLD CONQUEST

Cough cough. Yeah, you might want to check your sarcasm and joke meters. I think they're busted up.

OT: I don't know, evil is only something WE find evil. We decided that genocide and abuse and stuff like that is evil. Who is to say what other species say about that?

And yes, kicking a puppy is pure evil, no matter how you look at it.

 

[Patrick Buck]

Can the unit be in Hitlers? That was an act of evil measuring 1x10^-5 Hitlers.

You win at the internet.
Evil SHOULD be mesured in Hitlers.
It should be a thing. Lets make it official.
Starting NOW.

 

[Heronblade]

Since I consider an act of evil to be a matter of intention rather than specific scenarios. Evil would then be a constant, not a sliding scale in and of itself.

Basically you would calculate how "wrong" a specific action is of its own merits, then if the individual had evil intent, you would multiply the previous result by E.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Evil and good are subjective, just like good and bad.

OP makes the strangest threads.

 

[geK0]

Can the unit be in Hitlers? That was an act of evil measuring 1x10^-5 Hitlers.

10 micro hitlers? that's pretty bad!

random fact:
Did you know that an average of 16.76 megahitlers are committed per year by EA?

Did you know the above is worthy of the below?

So corporate greed is 16 million times worse than mass genocide of 11 million people? SEEMS LEGIT!

They have been doing terrible things behind the scenes that nobody knows about! 0_____0

obviously I'm not being serious, no need to be an ass about it :\

 

[Strazdas]

So corporate greed is 16 million times worse than mass genocide of 11 million people? SEEMS LEGIT!

Ofc its legit. Jew genotcide is nothing compared to what corporations did collectively.

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Let me give you a list of a few things.

Day one DLC
DLC in general
Digitally distrubuted games
Microtransactions
Hats in Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 itself

If you're dumb enough to EVER buy any of these things, you are a fool who will be quickly parted with their money.

That's what corporations do. They weed out the idiots of the world by putting out pointless and greedy shit and say "Alright, who's dumb enough to actually pay money for this?"

That's nowhere NEAR as evil or vile as MASS FUCKING MURDER and ATTEMPTED WORLD CONQUEST

It is obviuos you cant take a joke. Or maybe you can, after all, no sane person would say digital distribution is bad.
Then again, one could argue, that hitler himseld is not responsible for all the killing. A lot of that shame goes down to his generals and solsiers. How many people did hitler himself killed? not that many. Conquest of the world in itself is not bad. It is the means most people go about it is. For exampel if you were to conquer the world by curing people from termina disease, would that be considered evil in your eyes?

 

[Boris Goodenough]

I measure evil on the metric system.

Evil measures for evilness.

I am sorry, I can't hear your 63,360 inches to a mile over 100,000 cm to a km.