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I am of the belief that Good/ Evil ar simply differing shades of who we are, what we do as humans. There are obvious actions that will fall into a percieved shade of darkness....just as others will lean towards the light. Culture and society place the line between these two, as do personal understanding of the levels of acceptable practice.
The attempt to define what Evil is,has as much chance of a universal understanding as defining "God"....which is none. Still as a psycological experiment this excersize in expressing thought is fun....and can certainly lead to further examination of what we each belive the good/bad to be. The issue here will be the subjective nature of the definition, and where the line falls for each of us.
No, I do not believe in some evil intellect guiding the weak minded into acts of destruction, I see this as nothing more than a scapegoat for the nature of Humankind. Much as I do not accept a devine entity setting a Golden nirvana before us as a carrot on a stick. We are each responsible for our actions in this life....Maybe if we all realized this, there would be less darkness in this world, and fathers would not become monsters. Belief in Satan, or Evil...does not make things better in any way whatsoever. And if you are not making it better, What Are You Doing?
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