Azrael~Azure wrote:Zancan wrote:and do things for the good of themselves.
Only they sometimes don't.Yet how can you prove that humans are not 'evil'?
You, erm, serious?
I'll prove it; I'm not evil
You can spend thousands of hours boiling everything down to eventually find that somewhere in there the act of kindness was still for the good of the person doing it.
E.g. Giving money to charity - Makes the giver feel good about themselves and lures people to believe they are selfless.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong in it at all, you're all probably getting the wrong idea. I'm just trying to say it's human nature. So when people wonder why some things happen a certain way in a relationship they can look back on say this perspective, and perhaps others and gain more sensible answers.
And perhaps 'evil' was a strong term to use. I'll just stick to twisted and flawed.
I think you're right that there are a lot of total twats out there, maybe every one to one degree or another. If you remove 'evil' from the equation and just say 'twatishness' then yeah, every one's a bit of a dick.
Lures people in? Isn't it a selfless act? It is what it is, you do it for the sake of charity, if you're doing it to make yourself feel better then surely, even to yourself, your intentions are good? You make it sound like people give to charity as a way of proving they're not souless
You can't be covering up selfishness by doing something selfless and enjoying it at the same time - that means you're not selfish. One or the other!I also think you're wrong about actions on the whole, I do believe that some can be selfless. In the sense that even when you do boil it down, what you've done for some one else is of greater benefit for them. However, benefits are subjective. Is the money I give to charity better than the emotional lift I get from giving it? Can go either way, and in turn, so can whether an action is evil or not.
