OK, I’m going to raise, in the next post and when I have more time–maybe later tonight, maybe not–some of the big problems I see in your reasoning, but for now, I must ask: “what’s ‘the bottom’, and where do standards of ‘top’ (I guess) and ‘bottom’ come from?” That, for now. More later…

Any way, on evil. It is hard to define, but I will give it a shot.

In many situations you have a variety of options open to you- differant choices you can make. Evil is when you choose the choices towards the bottom.

The reason it is so hard is because there are alot of complications. For example, intent matters- but only to a degree. Hitler thought he was a good guy after all. There are also cases where there is no good options.

Sorry if it isn’t the best, but it beats out the web dictionary definition.

I’ll start our friendly sparring this way:

You said, as a starting point, that “evil exists”. Of course, I agree. You gave a definition of morality, but that is a step too far, as I see it; could you define “evil” for me? And why is evil…evil?

Thanks!

That’s quite a mouthful! I’m going to try to get back to you and answer some of your concerns soon; busy day, but I’ll see what I can do. Thanks for posting!