Good and Evil, locked inside. Turn it loose...

[al_rants]

If you were to walk into the store "Hot Topic," you would see lots of t-shirts and decals promoting the cause of evil. "Evil inside!" says one. Others sport the emblem of the "bad guys" from various cartoons, comics, TV shows, etc. Like the Decepticons logo from the Transformers

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[inkbrush76]

See, I pretty much sidestep most of this because I'm pretty sure that neither good nor evil really exist. They're basically terms used to identify us and not us. Things that are good/ are generally those things which are affiliated with our culture, our values, our well-being, etc. Things that are evil are those things that are in opposition to us, our interests, our values, our culture, or our survival. Morality is just a set of rules that a given culture has decided on; these rules are used as a way to make the world work a certain way

[inkbrush76]

Sorry, I seem to have left an italics tag open somewhere in there.

Oh well.

The point remains: there is no such thing as objective morality. There are agreed upon rules that groups of people share to create a culture that has a better chance of survival/is more pleasant to live in.

[sirmacncheese]

I think in the end, good and evil lies in the heart and the mind. An abstract concept defined as a balance between action and intention.

I think laws are simply parameters we keep to help maintain a balance in our tribe. All group creatures do. Bees, wolves, elephants, dolphins. They don't call them laws, most are probably instincts. However, whatever their origin, they exist to allow animals in groups to remain in groups. You can't steal from your packmates, haves sex with your packmates mates, accuse them of false crimes (that's what bearing false witness actually means) or kill them if the pack is to survive. The center won't hold.

[loveandcherish]

i agree with sirmacncheese

[kirimori]

I think I'm gong to agree with sirmacncheese here. The ideas of good and evil are in the heart and the mmind. Something might seem good to someone and could seem completely evil to another person. It is all based on common sense (or lack thereof) and cultural differences.
There was a book that I had to read freshman year called Things Fall Apart. I hated the damn thing, and I haven't a clue who wrote it. The only thing I liked about it is that it went into depth about cultural differences between this large group of African natives (I'm thinking African natives anyway, I could be wrong.) and the Christians who were trying to convert them, and what serious problems arose from these cultural differences. Many of these problems were caused by the confusion between what is really good and what is really evil. Other than that it pretty much sucked.