China And Myanmar.

[Joker]

Latest News:

More than 15,000 people dead in Myanmar.

50,000 people dead in Chinese earthquake.

Do you still think there is a divine or grand purpose in life?

Anyhow…

How is it that when a natural catastrophe kills that many people we don’t call it evil but instead we relate it as natural phenomena yet when a person kills that many people we call it evil?

I see no reason why we can’t relate the term natural phenomena to the murderings of people too as we do with natural catastrophes. It is all the same thing.

[realunoriginal]

To subdue moralistic anxieties based on hypocrisy.

[Phoebus]

How could a storm be evil? Did you see it scowl, hear the ripples of its shrill laughter echo in your soul?

How could man not be evil? Does his thundering fist lay claim to only nature’s ruin?

[Cyrene]

I see no reason why we can’t relate the term natural phenomena to the murderings of people too as we do with natural catastrophes. It is all the same thing.

1. Lots of people, lots of people claim that natural disasters are the work of satan ie; evil. (so your claim that people don’t do this, even widely do this, is false)

2. For those of us who know the devil didn’t do it, i guess the reasons we don’t assign ‘evil’/‘good’ to a storm/occurance is because we know that don’t have brains or subjective states. We know that an earth-quake didn’t kill 50thousand people because it personally decided that black skin or jews were in league with a universal evil.

3. sensical people usually don’t call humans ‘evil’ or storms ‘evil’ what we typically refer to as ‘evil’ in a human, is usually the result of psychopathy or ‘temporary insanity’ (an adaptive and economical response: insane unctrollable rage) except that in today’s environment, its usually a bad result opposed to a hopefully beneficial one.

As in humans that we call ‘evil’ are generally either following brutal violent adaptations or they’re psychopaths, and there is a difference. We have violent tendencies, not everyone is violent psychopath unable to work in a group. Most people capable of massive violence are still psychologically much much different.

[etaoin]

People curse God all the time. People are no more evil than other natural phenomena. There’s a line in Sophocles like “you might as well pray to the rocks and the waves.”

[Joker]

@etaoin

People curse God all the time. People are no more evil than other natural phenomena. There’s a line in Sophocles like “you might as well pray to the rocks and the waves.”

That’s what I was looking for in making this thread.

[Joker]

@Phoebus

How could a storm be evil? Did you see it scowl, hear the ripples of its shrill laughter echo in your soul?

How could man not be evil? Does his thundering fist lay claim to only nature’s ruin?

Excellent questions. Can you answer your own questions?

My basic premises of this thread is that people are no more evil than any other natural phenomena.

Can you disprove my assertion?

[Joker]

@Cyrene

I see no reason why we can’t relate the term natural phenomena to the murderings of people too as we do with natural catastrophes. It is all the same thing.

1. Lots of people, lots of people claim that natural disasters are the work of satan ie; evil. (so your claim that people don’t do this, even widely do this, is false)

2. For those of us who know the devil didn’t do it, i guess the reasons we don’t assign ‘evil’/‘good’ to a storm/occurance is because we know that don’t have brains or subjective states. We know that an earth-quake didn’t kill 50thousand people because it personally decided that black skin or jews were in league with a universal evil.

3. sensical people usually don’t call humans ‘evil’ or storms ‘evil’ what we typically refer to as ‘evil’ in a human, is usually the result of psychopathy or ‘temporary insanity’ (an adaptive and economical response: insane unctrollable rage) except that in today’s environment, its usually a bad result opposed to a hopefully beneficial one.

As in humans that we call ‘evil’ are generally either following brutal violent adaptations or they’re psychopaths, and there is a difference. We have violent tendencies, not everyone is violent psychopath unable to work in a group. Most people capable of massive violence are still psychologically much much different.

1. Lots of people, lots of people claim that natural disasters are the work of satan ie; evil. (so your claim that people don’t do this, even widely do this, is false)

I never denied that they do make such claims in my post.

2. For those of us who know the devil didn’t do it, i guess the reasons we don’t assign ‘evil’/‘good’ to a storm/occurance is because we know that don’t have brains or subjective states. We know that an earth-quake didn’t kill 50thousand people because it personally decided that black skin or jews were in league with a universal evil.

I personally find it silly if not idiotic that we only apply the terms evil to conscious sapient beings all the while we call everything else natural phenomena.

3. sensical people usually don’t call humans ‘evil’ or storms ‘evil’ what we typically refer to as ‘evil’ in a human, is usually the result of psychopathy or ‘temporary insanity’ (an adaptive and economical response: insane unctrollable rage) except that in today’s environment, its usually a bad result opposed to a hopefully beneficial one.

( Previous replied quote is basically the same here.)

As in humans that we call ‘evil’ are generally either following brutal violent adaptations or they’re psychopaths, and there is a difference. We have violent tendencies, not everyone is violent psychopath unable to work in a group. Most people capable of massive violence are still psychologically much much different.

My assertion remains the same: People are no more evil compared to other natural phenomena.

This goes with Nietzsche’s quote when he described that there is no such thing as moral or ethical phenomena but instead there is only interpretations of phenomena only.