It takes more effort to be evil compared with good?
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It takes more effort to be evil compared with good?
In the short term it's easy to pull the trigger yet growing a flower is months in the making? So it is with good and evil?
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Re: It takes more effort to be evil compared with good?
...Therefore, growing flowers is evil.
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Poppies maybe?JacksSmirkingRevenge wrote:...Therefore, growing flowers is evil.
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Sins of omission, sins of commission...
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Did the Good Lord in his infinite wisdom not create the poppy?Scrumple wrote:Poppies maybe?JacksSmirkingRevenge wrote:...Therefore, growing flowers is evil.
How then can it be Evil?
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Poppycock!
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The practice of evil is home to as many fakers and dilettantes as physik but there are those of us who are more conscientious, is it not so?
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According to moral reasoning, the answer is yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_reasoning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_reasoning
There are four components of moral behavior. The first of these is moral sensitivity, which is "the ability to see an ethical dilemma, including how our actions will affect others."[3] The second is moral judgment, which is "the ability to reason correctly about what 'ought' to be done in a specific situation."[3] The third is moral motivation, which is "a personal commitment to moral action, accepting responsibility for the outcome."[3] The fourth and final component of moral behavior is moral character, which is a "courageous persistence in spite of fatigue or temptations to take the easy way out."[3]
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Re: It takes more effort to be evil compared with good?
All depends on the basic premise. Killing is only evil because of an underlying rationale that leads to the conclusion that it is evil to unjustifiably kill someone intentionally. Other premises could lead to other conclusions. The Amish tend to think that even unintentional killing is evil. Is it? Depends on the premises.
Re: It takes more effort to be evil compared with good?
No one outside a lunatic asylum considers themselves to be 'evil' so its a bit of a pointless question. You need to be able to think long term to avoid being anti social which is more a case of intelligence than easier
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