[Captain.Remy]

The notion of good and evil depends on the culture. What is considered good in one society, is bad in another and vice versa. However, we all share some values (killing human is evil, helping people is good) yet we still can have differences (in some societies, killing a woman in public for daring to look at a man is good therefore normal etc...) so it's all subjective.

To stereotype a bit, what's good is defined as what can you do to make people happy, not to offend anyone, be honest and live a simple life.
What is bad is what does harm people, cheating, lying, being mean etc...

But then I think we shouldn't fall into what we call a division of the 2. Things aren't all white and black, they are grey.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Captain.Remy

The notion of good and evil depends on the culture. What is considered good in one society, is bad in another and vice versa. However, we all share some values (killing human is evil, helping people is good) yet we still can have differences (in some societies, killing a woman in public for daring to look at a man is good therefore normal etc...) so it's all subjective.

To stereotype a bit, what's good is defined as what can you do to make people happy, not to offend anyone, be honest and live a simple life.
What is bad is what does harm people, cheating, lying, being mean etc...

But then I think we shouldn't fall into what we call a division of the 2. Things aren't all white and black, they are grey.

GW.Bush/Blair/ UnElected Brown
are all Evil
for not stopping Evil Yank Carpet Bombing of the General Public in Iraq.
Fact.

[WOMBAI]

Originally Posted by Captain.Remy

The notion of good and evil depends on the culture. What is considered good in one society, is bad in another and vice versa. However, we all share some values (killing human is evil, helping people is good) yet we still can have differences (in some societies, killing a woman in public for daring to look at a man is good therefore normal etc...) so it's all subjective.

To stereotype a bit, what's good is defined as what can you do to make people happy, not to offend anyone, be honest and live a simple life.
What is bad is what does harm people, cheating, lying, being mean etc...

But then I think we shouldn't fall into what we call a division of the 2. Things aren't all white and black, they are grey.

Killing a woman in public for looking at a man - is/would be wrong in any society - whatever religion tries to justify it! Just requires commonsense and humanity to know that!

[Lauren]

Originally Posted by WOMBAI

Killing a woman in public for looking at a man - is/would be wrong in any society - whatever religion tries to justify it! Just requires commonsense and humanity to know that!

But is it really bad? I mean, I look at that situation and go "it's bad" - but why does the fact it's a universal understanding mean it's actually bad?

Plus the good/bad thing is constantly shifting. Years ago if you'd said that a man married his black wife - people would say that's bad, or if someone was gay, that was also bad.

(I am not saying murder is right, but who are we to say it's bad? Yes, it fits into the universal meaning of bad, but is it actually evil?).

[WOMBAI]

Originally Posted by Lauren

But is it really bad? I mean, I look at that situation and go "it's bad" - but why does the fact it's a universal understanding mean it's actually bad?

Plus the good/bad thing is constantly shifting. Years ago if you'd said that a man married his black wife - people would say that's bad, or if someone was gay, that was also bad.

(I am not saying murder is right, but who are we to say it's bad? Yes, it fits into the universal meaning of bad, but is it actually evil?).

Sorry - but that is bull. You can't compare murder to mixed marriage and being gay.

Killing a woman for the reasons mentioned above is murder - and most definitely EVIL. In my book - any religion that would justify it is EVIL. They can dress it up how they like - but murder is murder!

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by WOMBAI

Sorry - but that is bull. You can't compare murder to mixed marriage and being gay.

Killing a woman for the reasons mentioned above is murder - and most definitely EVIL. In my book - any religion that would justify it is EVIL. They can dress it up how they like - but murder is murder!

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