I believe evil you don't need to teach bad manners you have to teach good ones. Explain
Are people good or evil?
@lettsplay10: why ?
I don't believe in good and evil in that way. People are complicated as hell.
Some of the nicest and most decent people I know have done very questionable things. And some of the very worst people I know - and I mean frickin' bad - have done things for me that like it or not, I should be grateful for.
I know people who have had terrible lives and gone on to do great things, while others have repeated the cycle. I know some who were given everything, and just turned out bad anyway.
People have their own theories but it basically seems like something of a crapshoot, imo.
People are shades of grey. That being said I think humans are prone to lean towards their more evil personality aspects. Humans are selfish, and in a way we're all kinda assholes, we just find people that share our understanding of what is right and wrong and thus they appear kind in our eyes, while they may be assholes for other people. That or we just grow accustomed to certain bad people and we stop seeing and start forgiving all the things that they do or may have done.
The kindest person can also be the biggest monster if pushed to his limit. Don't take away a good persons reason to be kind or generous....Look just be kind to the people you care about, and try to be benevolent, it's all one can really do. No one's fully malicious or kind by nature, so the right thing would be to attempt to be good to the best of our ability.
@dragonrampage: not all people are the same
@depinhom: I have evil
There's an old Native American story that I like to think is pretty true.
A young man asks his grandfather how to know if a person is good or bad.
The grandfather says: Every person has a dark dog and a light dog fighting inside them to be dominant.
The young man asks: Which dog wins?
The grandfather replies: The one you feed.
It's up to each individual what kind of person they want to be.
There's an old Native American story that I like to think is pretty true.
A young man asks his grandfather how to know if a person is good or bad.
The grandfather says: Every person has a dark dog and a light dog fighting inside them to be dominant.
The young man asks: Which dog wins?
The grandfather replies: The one you feed.
It's up to each individual what kind of person they want to be.
I like this story.
The world is black and white ,good vs evil.
This line of thought leads to death and violence.
@prossor_kobras: the result of that fight
There's an old Native American story that I like to think is pretty true.
A young man asks his grandfather how to know if a person is good or bad.
The grandfather says: Every person has a dark dog and a light dog fighting inside them to be dominant.
The young man asks: Which dog wins?
The grandfather replies: The one you feed.
It's up to each individual what kind of person they want to be.
@prossor_kobras: the result of that fight
Yes, the result, as well as the prelude and the fight itself.
Why does there need to be a fight?
@prossor_kobras: so that good can ultimately win.
@prossor_kobras: so that good can ultimately win.
Does good have to win out through violence?
I believe people are evil with occasional good tendencies. No one is 100% good or evil. But human nature is more evil than good, if we're going by traditional tendencies. Human nature, more than anything is to survive and adapt. If it came down to it, we would all eat each other to survive. Is that evil? Is that just survival instinct?
Don't get me wrong, humans also have made great sacrifices throughout history for the perceived "greater good" of mankind. But not everyone, especially in this modern era, has faced a situation where their life is on the line for something, so they have never needed to consider the choice between survival or sacrifice.
People are shades of grey. That being said I think humans are prone to lean towards their more evil personality aspects. Humans are selfish, and in a way we're all kinda assholes, we just find people that share our understanding of what is right and wrong and thus they appear kind in our eyes, while they may be assholes for other people. That or we just grow accustomed to certain bad people and we stop seeing and start forgiving all the things that they do or may have done.
The kindest person can also be the biggest monster if pushed to his limit. Don't take away a good persons reason to be kind or generous. Shit....I'm getting kind of dark here aren't I? Look just be kind to the people you care about, and try to be benevolent, it's all one can really do. No one's fully malicious or kind by nature, so the right thing would be to attempt to be good to the best of our ability.
Good and evil are just concepts made up by humans. They don't actually exist. Luckily I'm not human anymore, and have transcended past any mere mortal.
People are subjectively good. No reasonable person chooses to do evil deeds because they believe them to be evil. Society may condemn them for their actions, but they themselves see their deeds as necessary or at very least justifiable. People who acknowledge that they are committing acts they themselves view as evil repeatedly are mentally ill, and cannot be held entirely accountable for those actions.
In other words, no group would purposely name themselves "The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants".
@dboyrules2011: I'm evil in fact the hole world is.
There's an old Native American story that I like to think is pretty true.
A young man asks his grandfather how to know if a person is good or bad.
The grandfather says: Every person has a dark dog and a light dog fighting inside them to be dominant.
The young man asks: Which dog wins?
The grandfather replies: The one you feed.
It's up to each individual what kind of person they want to be.
I like it, thank you for putting that up. I have one that is the similar but different on how to handle the bad in life.
An aging Hindu master grew tired of his apprentice complaining and so, one morning, sent him for some salt. When the apprentice returned, the master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it.
"How does it taste?" the master asked.
"Bitter," spit the apprentice.
The master chuckled and then asked the young man to take the same handful of salt and put it in the lake.The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and once the apprentice swirled his handful of salt in the water,
the old man said, "Now drink from the lake."
As the water dripped down the young man's chin, the master asked, "How does it taste?" "Fresh," remarked the apprentice.
"Do you taste the salt?" asked the master.
"No," said the young man.
At this the master sat beside this serious young man, who so reminded him of himself, and took his hands, offering:
"The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains exactly the same. However, the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things. Stop being a glass. Become a lake."
Much like how you said that it is up to each person to decide what kind of man/woman they want to be. How they view/approach the hardships of life, i feel, changes their outlook on how they see the world around them.
@vashtanerada88: =D I like that a lot
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