Are we all secretly evil? Page 2

Started by marshmello April 6th, 2007 9:05 AM
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To claim anyone doesn't have a dark side would be ludicrous. You need bad to be good, just as with light and darkness, hate and love, happiness and sadness. Without one, the other cannot exist.

However, most people ae not balanced, because of society's rules. They suppress the bad side, and shrink it, in vain hopes of depleting it entirely. However, that is impossible.

I believe that a day with no rules or laws would indeed be the end of the world, and here's why. While people are naturally balanced, (50:50 good and evil) Society tries to make us more good (about 95:5 good and evil, respectively). With the strain on our evil side gone, it would instantly cause a dramatic reversal, before reaching equilibrium.

To put it simply, think of what would happen if you put a pot of hot water on a counter. The stove top was keeping it hot before, but take away the heat source, and you get rapid cooling. The hotter the water was, the quicker it cools relative to the original temperature.

A day of the world with no rules would certainly bring about society's destruction. However, once we reached that equillibrium of 50:50 good and evil, we would be much happier, more fulfilled people for it.

Imagine a world where greed, anger, and lust were as normal and accepted as happiness, and you never had to feel bad for feeling those feelings. In a world like that, while it may not be as perfect, people would be more free and generally happier.

(By the way, remember that happiness and sadness =/= good and evil. You can be happy and evil, or sad and good, after all.)

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Think about this, if we all had a day without ANY rules of any kind. What do you think would happen and most important what would your day be like?[B]
Well uh, wouldn't all the humans be murdered?


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It's perfectly interesting to have an evil side, just don't let your evil side decide your life.

I wouldn't turn evil if there were no laws or rules. Not being protected by laws implies the need for more personal resiponsibility. It is not a blank check for evil.

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yes exactly! we would all die and the world would end just like that, some people doubt this - there may be a little life left on earth but it would not last a single week. and what makoto said, yes in scientific ways that is it!
but we dont turn evil we are evil and we unleash it when we have the opportunity
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First off, I'd go off to random stores and take things. It isn't wrong, since it isn't a rule or anything. XD Then I would go around and kick people's shins, and then hideout and throw rotten tomatoes at people.

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I think I'd probably act the way I normally do. There are certain morals and standards I try to hold so I wouldn't go directly against them because there were suddenly no rules.

However, I also think that the world would be in such a disaster if there was suddenly nothing to go by. I mean, all the criminals wouldn't be in jail because there would be no rule to keep them there. It'd be a disaster. As much as everyone thinks it'd be great to have no rules, everyone else would have the same "no rule" day, too, so...

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I think everyone has their own limits when it comes to evil.
Everyone has this line for them self, that they don't step over. Some people doesn't have that line, you see them everyday on news
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its the people who have no line to cross who are evil... or maybe their line isnt being crossed becayuse they belive they are serving up justice EX:terrorists
They think that americans are evil and they sometimes will go to great lengths to kill or disable us because they think we are evil incarnate. But we are not...

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I would probaly just keep eating Raw two minute noodles >.>
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Lack of rules doesn't really translate to lack of morals. Morals are a personal decision...rules are not. If rules = morals, none of us would have issues with the fact that they exist.

Obviously I'm not perfectly pure...never claimed that I was. BUT...I know that a lack of rules would never drive me to just randomly start killing people. It's not a matter of whether or not I CAN...but rather WHY. I have no desire to take the lives of innocent people, regardless of whether or not I would be punished for it. I don't think this requires a huge amount of morals...just a basic respect for lives other than my own. The farthest I would go would be to steal something if I really felt the need to be "bad". Then again, people frequently steal things in everyday life, so I suppose it's not that shocking.
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I don't think we're innately good or evil. If most societies condone theft, rape, or murder, we'd gladly do it. It has turned out, though, that they are not, and with this kind of rearing I personally would be hesitant to go around causing mayhem. In some cases I would, but in others I don't see the benefit.

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Are people really evil? Arguable. Are people idiots? A resounding YES. After all, one could argue that all crime is simply due to ignorance of some form, whether it be long-lasting or fleeting. If people were smart all of the time, there stands a fair chance that there would be no more crime. Of course, one cannot truly determine who is or isn't "smart" while remaining objective, so this would be hard to prove...

But I digress. What would I do...? ...... ...... ...Heheh. Depends on where and who would be around me...
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