Preventing Evil

[am4z1ng]

First off, I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has read my LiveJournal since its founding one year ago this day. Being able to express myself in this fashion has really made a difference to me, as it’s given me a way to directly deal with the issues that I ponder in everyday life. What has helped the most, however, is all

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splendiferous

[anonymous]

I haven't commented in a while, because I hate writing, but since it's a special occasion...

While I agree with you when you say that men can be both evil and kind at the same time, to me this means that all people are evil, because true good is the complete absence of evil. Judgments between good and evil are generally based on the average person, which isn't the right dividing line between what’s right and what is not. Unfortunately, people tend to act in their own self interest even if it’s in opposition to another person. These natural conflicts are inevitable, and seem to cause evil to appear in human nature. Humans aren’t born ready to harm each other, but are willing to act in a way that benefits themselves at the expense of others. The best way to prevent evil is to limit these conflicts where one person stands to damage another for a personal gain. Punishment for evil is the most obvious choice to limit it, but it isn’t very effective. For example, if a person is too poor to feed themselves so they steal food to stay alive, sending all such people to prison is going to do less to stop the crimes than to improve the conditions they live in so that they don’t feel the need to wrong another person in order to improve their own condition. The more content people are, the more likely they are to be good-willed towards others.

thanks for taking your time to write these by the way, it's great reading them. keep it up



I just thought that thing was cool, if you wanted to you could probably find some good vs evil way of explaining it.