User Panel
User Panel
User Panel
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:33:42 PM EDT
[#1]
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:34:08 PM EDT
[#2]
Quoted:
I say it does not. Discuss. If it doesn't exist, what does it do? |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:34:42 PM EDT
[#3]
Have you read the newspaper or watched the news? lots of evil shit going on.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:34:50 PM EDT
[#4]
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:34:51 PM EDT
[#5]
Well that's a stupid question.
Explain your reasoning. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:34:53 PM EDT
[#6]
yes it does. What kind of dumb fuck question is this?
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:35:01 PM EDT
[#7]
Not as an entity.
Evil is an action and a mindset; therefore it is perpetrated by people. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:36:41 PM EDT
[#8]
Yes
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:37:17 PM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Not as an entity. Evil is an action and a mindset; therefore it is perpetrated by people. Dude is fueled by satan so im guessing he believes as an entity. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:38:50 PM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Not as an entity. Evil is an action and a mindset; therefore it is perpetrated by people. O.P. used a poorly worded question. It should have read: Is evil just a word to describe people who do very bad things, or are their evil forces in the world driving them to commit evil acts? |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:40:16 PM EDT
[#11]
Yes, men are evil which is why God is so important in a mans life.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:41:36 PM EDT
[#12]
Of course evil exists.
(In before someone posts, "And I was married to her.") |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:42:34 PM EDT
[#13]
Quoted:
I say it does not. Discuss. Then everything is hunky dory? |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:42:37 PM EDT
[#14]
In to laugh at the OPs tortured redefinition.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:43:03 PM EDT
[#15]
For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad.
Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:43:11 PM EDT
[#16]
Well I wouldn't call molesting children, raping women, or brutally slaughtering innocent people good and wholesome would you? So what does that leave?
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:43:47 PM EDT
[#17]
There is a well known book in academia that deals with the psychology of genocide that devotes a section to the concept of evil and its reality. It was an interesting place to see evil discussed as a real concept.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:43:54 PM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Not as an entity. Evil is an action and a mindset; therefore it is perpetrated by people. I agree with this. Depends on how you're trying to define it or what evil is in your mind. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:44:20 PM EDT
[#19]
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:44:44 PM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryWhenever I see him I think of the saying. "It's one of the Devils greatest feats. Make people think he doesn't exist." |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:45:07 PM EDT
[#21]
It absolutely does exist, and sometimes you can see it, as in the picture of the Sandy Hook killer.
However, it is usually more benign. You see it almost every day here, when someone makes a comment like "They should execute all Drunk Drivers" or similar. A good working definition would be "Lack of human empathy" A significant percentage of members here pride themselves on it. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:45:13 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Of course evil exists. (In before someone posts, "And I was married to her.") |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:45:51 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Well that's a stupid question. Explain your reasoning. Not that stupid, considering 5 people voted no. 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:46:14 PM EDT
[#24]
Quoted:
I say it does not. Discuss. Yes, humans really are evil. Equally so, but not everyone expresses it to the same degree. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:46:45 PM EDT
[#25]
Of course its real. I had a package full of evil delivered just last thursday.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:48:43 PM EDT
[#26]
Never been in an institution for the criminally insane I take it? There is a big difference between the average prisoner, including child molesters and murderers, and some of the individuals who get institutionalized.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:49:08 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Of course its real. I had a package full of evil delivered just last thursday. Was it 50 lbs. of RAPE? 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:49:55 PM EDT
[#28]
Quoted:
I say it does not. Discuss. Any poll which does not include a "pie" option is evil, thus your poll is proof that you're wrong. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:50:11 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Not that stupid, considering 5 people voted no. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
Well that's a stupid question. Explain your reasoning. Not that stupid, considering 5 people voted no. I'd counter that a substantial percentage of GD's common respondents are demonstrably stupid. I love it here, but let's face it. We deal with some 'tards. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:50:27 PM EDT
[#30]
If the expression of evil exists (and that is pretty easy to see), then evil must exist.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:51:08 PM EDT
[#31]
Quoted:
I say it does not. Discuss. I say it's subjective, so if the observer perceives it as evil it is. Example Perspective Gazelle: Lions are fucking evil Example Perspective Lion, Hyena, vulture, human, fly, etc. Lions are pretty fucking awesome, albeit not to be fucked with. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:51:11 PM EDT
[#32]
ooo! fun!
IMO, evil does not have any kind of objective existence. it is a concept created by humans to identify behavior that they find the most disagreeable. edit: or sometimes very agreeable... 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:52:12 PM EDT
[#33]
Yesm there are really evil people out there. I have met some, and have dealt with some of them.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:52:17 PM EDT
[#34]
The term is sufficiently vague as to preclude an answer to the question.
The word probably means something different to each person who uses it. In what sense are you using it in your question? |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:52:26 PM EDT
[#35]
I've met Evil. I've had a cup of coffee with Evil while it explained to my why it murdered an infant. I've chained up Evil and taken it to prison for all sorts of reprehensible acts. I've seen Evil in places you wouldn't expect. Evil is real. And it's father is the Devil himself, Satan.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:53:10 PM EDT
[#36]
you've never met my soon to be ex
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:54:38 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
you've never met my soon to be ex Best answer, lol! |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:54:48 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I'd counter that a substantial percentage of GD's common respondents are demonstrably stupid. I love it here, but let's face it. We deal with some 'tards. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Well that's a stupid question. Explain your reasoning. Not that stupid, considering 5 people voted no. I'd counter that a substantial percentage of GD's common respondents are demonstrably stupid. I love it here, but let's face it. We deal with some 'tards.  We even have a thread dedicated to the self-identified. ARFcom's Demonstrably Stupid Members
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:55:03 PM EDT
[#39]
Yes I have looked into the eyes of a person that was pure evil. If you ever meet a psychopath (not sociopath) but someone who has made the jump from socio to psychopath you are in for an experience you will never forget.
Some sick MF's in this world and to me these people are nothing more than walking waste. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 3:57:59 PM EDT
[#40]
Is there some force in the universe that compels men to do wicked things?
I don't know, but I know that men do wicked things. In fact, I believe every man at some point has done something evil, but of course the severity of what they've done differs from man to man. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 4:02:46 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Is there some force in the universe that compels men to do wicked things? NO I don't know, but I know that men do wicked things. In fact, I believe every man at some point has done something evil, but of course the severity of what they've done differs from man to man. The capability of compassion, evil, charity, love, hate is in us all. Some exist without the capability of being able to show empathy for others or feel the same feelings as the majority they are not necessarily evil but given the right conditions and circumstances they can become a normal part of society or Ted Bundy for example. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 4:08:10 PM EDT
[#42]
Of course it does.
The better philosophical question is whether humans are inherently good or inherently evil. 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 4:09:01 PM EDT
[#43]
Evil - like love - cannot be said to exist or not exist.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 4:25:27 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
It absolutely does exist, and sometimes you can see it, as in the picture of the Sandy Hook killer. However, it is usually more benign. You see it almost every day here, when someone makes a comment like "They should execute all Drunk Drivers" or similar. A good working definition would be "Lack of human empathy" A significant percentage of members here pride themselves on it. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 4:27:45 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I'd counter that a substantial percentage of GD's common respondents are demonstrably stupid. I love it here, but let's face it. We deal with some 'tards. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Well that's a stupid question. Explain your reasoning. Not that stupid, considering 5 people voted no. I'd counter that a substantial percentage of GD's common respondents are demonstrably stupid. I love it here, but let's face it. We deal with some 'tards. Say that again, but so that a 6 year old could understand.... 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 4:33:42 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuote HistoryExactly  That whole mess has had my head fucking cross-threaded , all day. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 4:37:07 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Exactly
That whole mess has had my head fucking cross-threaded , all day. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Exactly
That whole mess has had my head fucking cross-threaded , all day. You have obviously never seen what pure evil can do. This guy is just a giant asshole douche. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 4:52:29 PM EDT
[#48]
What evil makes you look like.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 4:54:39 PM EDT
[#49]
Evil like a magic energy or something released from a box - no.
Evil as it choices and decisions made by one person that go beyond the bounds of societies norms that they're labeled as evil -yes. |
|
|
|
Posted: 1/14/2015 5:01:34 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You have obviously never seen what pure evil can do. It's all relative . You can always find something worse than any example....that thread just happen to hit close to home. |
|
|
Win a FREE Membership!
Sign up for the ARFCOM weekly newsletter and be entered to win a free ARFCOM membership. One new winner* is announced every week!
You will receive an email every Friday morning featuring the latest chatter from the hottest topics, breaking news surrounding legislation, as well as exclusive deals only available to ARFCOM email subscribers.
AR15.COM is the world's largest firearm community and is a gathering place for firearm enthusiasts of all types.
From hunters and military members, to competition shooters and general firearm enthusiasts, we welcome anyone who values and respects the way of the firearm.
Subscribe to our monthly Newsletter to receive firearm news, product discounts from your favorite Industry Partners, and more.
Copyright © 1996-2024 AR15.COM LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Any use of this content without express written consent is prohibited.
AR15.Com reserves the right to overwrite or replace any affiliate, commercial, or monetizable links, posted by users, with our own.
