I have been writing a book and I have come to a point where I need a conflict a villain no not a villin the protein but an adversary of my “hero”. Then I ran into a problem I truly cannot say I understand with all my philosophy and theology – what good is and what evil is. Why is he/she/it evil? Why do they choose or born to be this way or do these things etcetera? What is evil to start we understand good for the things we find pleasurable but in other thoughts we find that these pleasurable things can be of ways of evil that being like sex. A very touchy subject matter to most Americans a little more open-minded are the Europeans on the subject but just the same. That being said for example if we go toward the all too common Christian route an example of good and evil per say.
What is it to kill another instead to murder another? What really defines this? Are you avenging the death of your wife is this then killing? Or is it murder because you take the life of another from their family? Making more or less the eye for an eye theme. Or another example from a different approach would be to say to kill for food or is it murder because you are still taking a life? How extreme is it?
So the question in its simplest form I can come up with is what is TRULY evil and what motivates one or something to be this way (apart from the flawed idea of the first sin)?
RULES OF THIS TOPIC
First off- these are the rules of this discussion as I see fit to attempt to stop meaningless badgering and false insight toward a goal or an idea.
1. BE OPEN-MINDED!!! Proof, not opinion. Your argument needs proof to be a fact- so if you do not have proof to show that your opinion is a fact then I recommend you leave this discussion before a moderator deletes your from the forum or thread by the least for you not being open-minded.
2. Reasonable arguments. Do not throw in the idea that because you are catholic you are right. We all come from different backgrounds and don’t be a pompous fool to think that because you come from that background that you know where that background even comes from. How much about the REAL history do you know not of what you are told- but for this example at play can you read Hebrew? Or by that matter Greek?
3. Descript examples. Be descriptive make sure you are clear of what you mean to not start a flame war or argument.
4. This is not a debate whatsoever to prove one idea wrong from another- this is the attempt to gather the ideas that there are in place and then find the fallacies of the ideas given to attempt to find something that even at this extent may not be able to understand at this point in our adaptation of this world.
Post and be friendly please.
