GET YOUR HEAD AROUND HIS ONE. THE GOOD AND EVIL THAT MEN DO ! My late mother always told me that whatever we do in life, whether good or bad, will come back to you 10 fold.
Does actually hold true or is it an old wives tale ? Please give me your take on this !
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.It's obviously bullshit people tell themselves so they feel better about evil fuckers like the Waltons, Trump, and the Koch brothers living in mansions
ghost_warlock
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June 18, 2018
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Yip, and it is an old wives tale !
There's no basis to think such a thing. There's a general principle of "what goes around comes around" that's weakly true based on the inherent dynamics of social reciprocity but not on some universal law. We all know that sometimes bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people.
There's also no basis for the concept of "evil". There are just harms or benefits of certain actions. When there are consistent and clear harms we discourage those actions or sanction them in some way. "Evil" is a religious concept that muddies the waters and reduces objectivity in assessing the [im]morality of a particular course of action.
mordant
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June 18, 2018
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Evil/bad, don'try muddy the waters ?
I'm just going to go ahead and call a horse a horse. If somebody does a bunch of immoral things and doesn't care that they're actively causing suffering, they're fucking evil
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I agree, splitting hairs here is of no consequence !
@ghost_warlock Fine for everyday purposes I agree, but "fucking evil" is way less accurate and objective than "psychopathic". If you want to actually understand why it happened and how to predict / prevent it, you need the latter, not the former -- satisfying as "fucking evil" may feel at times.
@mordant If you say so...again it's splitting hairs because "psychopathic" isn't a clinical term like, say, Antisocial Personality Disorder. Psychopathic is a lay term just like "sociopath" and it doesn't really have any more predictive power than "evil." You can't diagnose, treat, or rehabilitate any of the three
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