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Re: No evil people
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 3 Nov 2001 12:42:31 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Carl Watson writes:
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> > (1) getting OT - IMO there is no such thing as evil people, only evil
> > actions.
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> Care to elaborate on that? I've said in the past that most people are • good,
> but I do acknowledge that there may be some that are not. It sounds like • you
> think that no matter how much evil a person does, no matter how • remorseless
> their actions, they're still a good person, or at least that good and evil
> don't apply. Is that correct?
Yes thanks.
I do not deny the existence of evil.
IMO evil is a description of an action.
I believe there are evildoer's but not evil people.
What do you think?
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| (...) I think that there ARE evil people. Here are a few candidates for you to consider: Pol Pot. Joseph McCarthy. Joseph Stalin. Jeffrey Dahmer. (that last one, some will argue is a mentally ill person, but I'm not sure one way or the other... it's (...) (23 years ago, 3-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Care to elaborate on that? I've said in the past that most people are good, but I do acknowledge that there may be some that are not. It sounds like you think that no matter how much evil a person does, no matter how remorseless their actions, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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