nancygold's Journal

Why I am not "evil"
People keep calling me "evil."

But what does it mean to be "evil?" What makes one "evil?"

There were many definitions of evil across time and cultures.

Generally it boils down to "evil is something bad for our group."

Both Russians and Ukrainians call each other evil.

And civilized people call both of these aboriginal tribes evil.

In the overpopulated world the death of a billion could be good.

In fact, Bible promotes drowning all sinners.

In Bible it is definitely not an evil to do a genocide.

So we may conclude, that the notion of "evil" is not universal.

Evil is always relative to some agent or a group of agents.

Are mosquitoes evil? If you're a mammal, then yes.

But for a dragonfly it is a food source.

So speaking about some evil in abstract vacuum makes no sense.

Yet authors like Joanne Rofling have insect brain.

The relativism is too complex for them.

They generalize their notions of good and evil.

But such hasty generalizations fail.

So the stupid beings get confused.

I'm not evil, because there is no evil.

I'm not good, because there is no good.

I'm just what I am.

Everything else is a social construct.

I watch the movies to enjoy seeing the characters facing complex problems.

I don't care if the characters are "good" or "evil" in any of the notions.

I only care that the problems are complex and interesting enough.

Hope that explains it.
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