Of good and evil

Published by Alexia in the blog The Thought Police accidentally put me in the 5th circle of hell. Views: 448

Good and evil have no legitimate reason to exist. The murder of an innocent is regarded as being ‘evil’ in society, yet did the murderer believe their actions to be evil? No, they did not. Even if society thought badly of the action, the murderer thought good of it. Good and evil only relate to a single human’s emotional state in regards to a certain action carried out by another individual or by chance. Nothing can be classed as either good or evil simply because each individual has their own opinion of the issue. With no God to dictate black and white, how can anyone class what is right or wrong?

We class what is right and wrong based on the consequences of our actions. If we are punished for killing, our mind ends up dictating that the action is bad. If we are rewarded for killing, our mind ends up dictating that killing is good. But why does society reward or punish us? The answer is because of human pain. Humans feel pain as a mode of self-preservation, and when such pain reaches extremes, its victims dislike it and brand it as ‘evil’ no matter how much the ‘perpetrator’ may see their actions to be good.

This brings us to the subject of human life. What is its value and how do we measure it? In comparison to the universe and time itself, human life and the human species is insignificant. We are nothing in the grand scheme of things. Though, we human life does have some significance to humans. Life is meaningless, but it does not mean that humans cannot give it meaning. The same applies to the value of human life. It has no value, but it does not mean that humans cannot value it and give value to it.
Oct 24, 2012
  • Soraian
    Soraian Oct 24, 2012
    Moral Compass.

    You have morals, whether you are religious or not, these are based off your life experiences, these are your right and wrong, your good and evil.

    Everybody has different morals, religions try and instill all their followers with the same morals, our moral compass tells us if something is right or wrong, good or evil, north of south, these are just words to describe something we cant.

    We feel towards something or pushed from something, this is good and evil, they exist but they mean nothing as words, They are but a concept of the human mind built over thousands of years, building a fire = good, destroying fire = bad, Firemaker = Good , Firebreaker = Bad, Sun = Good, Rain = Bad, And so on and so forth.

    everybody has their own individual idea of what is good or evil, right or wrong, here or there, but on a global scale, we are a moral-less country of filthy animals skittering for survival on a desolate rock.
  • Dark Samus
    Dark Samus Oct 25, 2012
    Good and evil are pretty silly concepts to me. Morals are relative and I believe that they should relate to the social health of the population as well as the physiological and psychological health of those in it. These things can actually be measured where health is defined as "A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level."
  • Soraian
    Soraian Oct 25, 2012
    calm down bro
  • Alexia
    Alexia Oct 25, 2012
    @ Sora and SunBurn
    Yes, I too believe that good and evil are 'silly' concepts because they are like black and white.... And, well, /nothing/ is black and white. It's a primeval function that decided what we see as good and bad, yet I believe it's only the basics that truly count. I.E: Pushing another off a tall building is bad because everyone will be after you with pitchforks.
    Morals, on the other hand, /should/ be in place for the health of society, yet I believe that too many people see their morals as black and white. I.E: It is seen as 'evil' to call a retarded person retarded. I believe that one who is retarded does not need to be reminded of this fact, and so moral obligations tell us to avoid calling them retarded. But is it evil to call them retarded? No, I don't believe it is.
  • Dark Samus
    Dark Samus Oct 25, 2012
    Most behavior that are thought of as "evil" tend to be the kind that harms the overall health of a community or at least a part of it; usually affecting one or more groups of people. When a person gets killed, not only has the victim died but it also does terrible harm to the ones who were close to and received support from the victim as well as embittering them. Unfortunately, I'm a little in the dark about what are all the things that could happen to the families and friends of murder victims. Intuition tells me they won't look at their community or humanity very fondly afterwards and it might possibly make them more open to the idea of killing a person. Again, I have no concrete information to back that up. That's just one example of behavior having detrimental effects to individuals as well as the community at large.
  • Alexia
    Alexia Oct 25, 2012
    Hmm... Yes. As I said, human pain dictates a lot in our society. I too do not have any concrete info about the effects of a murder on a community, but it is easy to see that it'd cause human pain. Silly humans, becoming attached to stuff all the time... hehehe.
  • Soraian
    Soraian Oct 25, 2012
    Lexi dont make me tell the people about your attachments to people and things.. ;)
  • Alexia
    Alexia Oct 26, 2012
    It's human psychology. As much as I know that I need more control over myself, complete detachment from objects/people is impossible. :|
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