I get
the whole 'evil' thing, I just don't know anyone who is, including myself. I'm with the OP, I simply can't get it.
I could understand, say, Ethiopians being 'evil' through simply needing to live, and therefor fucking over the next man for his food, but people in the West, who live comfortably - even those on the 'western' breadline have a roof over their heads for the most part - I can't understand the motive.
(dchurch bah, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 20:50, 2 replies)

That's the whole point.
Fucking over your neighbour for his food is not evil: it's survival of the fittest.

Being sexist/racist/homophobic when there's no obvious benefit or even no benefit at all for you is plain evil.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 21:04, closed)

I think a lot of it does come down to need and want.
If you go somewhere where people have everything they need and some things they want then you find it's likely to be less violent and nasty.
If everyone could have what they want when they want it (not counting hurting people etc.) then there would be a whole lot less crime. The only crime then would be people who are either mentally ill or brainwashed into being so.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 21:22, closed)

Commie

( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 21:58, closed)

not necessarily
have you never heard the saying "much wants more"?
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 23:37, closed)

But much doesn't feel the need to murder for more quite as often.
I know it's not unheard of for people who are well off to steal and murder (professions where that's their job aside) but they're less likely to than people who can't get the smack or crack they want or those who can't quite afford the TV, Car and trainers they think they need.
It's certainly not an answer to give everyone everything but you only have to look at more developed nations without a divide between rich and poor to see that they have less crime.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 23:51, closed)

crimes borne of necessity are at least understandable
if not condonable. crimes borne of greed tend to be on a much larger scale
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 0:03, closed)

Racism is natural.
It goes back to tribes. You instinctively see people of a different race as being of a different tribe, and so therefore as competition.

Saying it's natural does not condone it, as shitting in the street is natural as well. I have also put it very simply.

Awaits abuse
(Vigilante Man weeps because you're stupid., Sat 15 Oct 2011, 22:30, closed)

"Fucking over your neighbour for his food is not evil: it's survival of the fittest."

Not really, invoking evolution as an excuse or even explanation for selfish behaviour is a particular kind of bollocks espoused by wankers who want to act like wankers without chalking it up to their wankerish personality.

"Survival of the fittest" (an somewhat outdated term) is used to describes how, at a species level, organisms that are better adapted to their local envrionment will be more likely to reproduce. It doesn't apply at the level of competition between individuals.
(flimflam_machine, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 11:35, closed)

I could introduce you to my mother in law to be
then you would have met someone evil and you would be sadder but wiser.
(Falco, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 22:51, closed)