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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!ccvax.ucd.ie!hwside
- From: hwside@ccvax.ucd.ie
- Newsgroups: alt.evil
- Subject: Re: Evil in general
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.123336.50170@ccvax.ucd.ie>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 12:33:35 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> <1993Jan22.122838.50169@ccvax.ucd.ie>
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- In article <1993Jan22.122838.50169@ccvax.ucd.ie>, hwside@ccvax.ucd.ie writes:
- > 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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