*EVIL*
jaQui 2012/11/01 19:46
The real unbeliever,
unlike the believer,
doesn’t have to bother
with such things as the
so-called ‘problem of
evil’ because evil
doesn’t exist. Things
have simply evolved
this way. Evil is just a
name we perhaps give
to our left-over instincts
of self preservation
from the time when we
were brute beasts; that
force which drove us to
kill, thieve and do
whatever necessary to
preserve ourselves and
our offspring at all
costs. Put another way,
‘evil’ is just a label
which we, either
individually or
collectively, decide
subjectively is ‘bad’.
The same thing goes
for the concept of
‘wrong’. How could
anything be – in an
objective sense –
‘wrong’? And what of
truth, honesty, sin,
falsity, beauty, art and
so on? All these things
too are just subjective,
human ideas, the result
of the evolution of
human thought. The
obvious conclusion is
that these ideas too
have no objective,
intrinsic worth.