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Originally posted by present_future
I believe evil is getting pleasure from another person's loss or pain.
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I don't. Mere shadenfreude isn't evil. It's just human nature, "shameful" though it may be.
I don't think there's any such thing as evil, per se. In the same sense as: the winner writes the history books. No (healthy) human being takes significant action AT ALL without a good reason and without thinking that what they're doing is right. Nobody walks around saying, "I'm evil. What I'm doing is bad and wrong, and I'm going to do it anyway and enjoy it."
However, from an external perspective, it may very well look that way. From over where I'm sitting, the actions of the Bush Administration look downright evil--Karl Rove looks like the antichrist. But I'm sure it seems like the right and sensible thing to be doing, to them.