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- From: hwside@ccvax.ucd.ie
- Newsgroups: alt.evil
- Subject: Re: Evil in general
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.122838.50169@ccvax.ucd.ie>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 12:28:38 GMT
- References: <mjann.2i1x@hotcity.COM> <C09p3v.HH0.1@cs.cmu.edu> <Jan09.063530.40501@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1993Jan14.110302.4442@wvnvms.wvnet.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan14.110302.4442@wvnvms.wvnet.edu>, un107041@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:
- > In article <Jan09.063530.40501@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, sa114984@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Steven Arnold) writes:
- >> I assume that everyone who believes in evil believes in absolute moral
- >> right and wrong. After all, what is evil if not the violation of what is morally
- >> right? And what meaning can evil have if there is no such thing?
- >> Has anybody ever considered the consequences to society if there were no
- >> such thing as evil? Why, we NEED evil, don't we, at least as a contrast to good.
- >> If there is only good, then again, evil is meaningless (as is everything; try
- >> painting sometime using only the same shade of white on a white canvas of exactly
- >> the same color).
- >> Evil and good: the Western duality as a solution, digital everything.
- >> Everything can be expressed, given enough 1's and 0's. The Western tradition is
- >> digital; the eastern is analog. Both are overgeneralizations. Infinity is an
- >> overgeneralization. Language is an overgeneralization. Reality is an
- >> overgeneralization, and an anthropomorphism besides.
- >> This post is rapidly degenerating into chaos.
- >>
- >> Steve
- >
- > Hey who let a philosophy major onto the net????????????????
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